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1940s-50s Vintage Watt Pottery Single Swirl #1350101

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1940s-50s Vintage Watt Pottery Single Swirl #1350101
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This 1940s-1950s vintage Watt pottery mixing bowl in the Swirl pattern is hard to find!</em></td>
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This Watt pottery mixing bowl in the Swirl pattern is hard to find! It was manufactured as one of a set of graduated mixing bowls between the 1940s and 1950s. It is a #7 Pink bowl in perfect condition, with none of the glaze skips and surface flaws characteristic of Watt Pottery. On the bottom of the bowl is marked in script "Oven Ware USA/Watt 7."<p>

Watt Pottery was owned and operated from July, 1922 until1965 in Crooksville, Ohio on the site of the old Burley Pottery Company. Active in manufacturing stoneware crocks and kitchen ovenware throughout those years, it went out of business only due to a fire in 1965. From its inception through the early 1930s, Watt Pottery manufactured stoneware crocks, butter churns, storage jars, preserve jars, and jugs. This stoneware is recognizable by its eagle or acorn marks which were stamped in blue, with number of gallons within a circle.<p>

In the mid-thirties, the company switched from producing stoneware in favor of modern oven wares. Oven wares, which gave the cook the ability to take the wares directly from the icebox to the oven, were possible due to a lighter weight clay body which had been developed for this flexibility and resilience of use. The earliest oven wares were not always identified with the Watt Pottery mark.<p>

Watt Pottery went on to produce solid color kitchenware in patterns such ersatz names as Moon & Stars, Arcs, Loops, Diamond and Grooves, popular collector references. The mark associated with these pieces, now ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Excellent</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1945</td></tr>






<tr><td>Title:1940s-50s Vintage Watt Pottery Single Swirl</td></tr>


<tr><td>Type:Swirl</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:Hillsboro, Ohio USA</td></tr>
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