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Metlox Pottery was founded in 1927 by Theodor C. Prouty and his son Willis Prouty, originally as a producer of outdoor ceramic signs. After the death of T.C. in 1931, Willis renamed the company Metlox Pottery ("Metlox" is a combination of "metal" and "oxide," a reference to the glaze pigments), and began producing dinnerware.
American Ceramic Products: Los Angeles, Santa Monica: 1939–1967 "La Mirada" "Winfield" tableware, art ware, & figurines [4] American China Company: Los Angeles: 1920s: Tile [25] American Encaustic Tiling Company (Gladding, McBean & Co. after 1933) Vernon, Hermosa Beach: 1919–1933: Tile [2] American Pottery: Los Angeles, San Juan Capistrano ...
Franciscan Ceramics are ceramic tableware and tile products produced by Gladding, McBean & Co. in Los Angeles, California, US from 1934 to 1962, International Pipe and Ceramics (Interpace) from 1962 to 1979, and Wedgwood from 1979 to 1983. Wedgwood closed the Los Angeles plant, and moved the production of dinnerware to England in 1983.
J.A. Bauer moved his family to Los Angeles in early 1909, and selected a new site for a pottery. J.A. Bauer Pottery Company was built at 415-421 West Avenue 33 in Lincoln Heights, [3] an area between Los Angeles and Pasadena, California. The first products were the same products J.A. Bauer produced in Paducah.
In addition to its dinnerware factory and showroom in Sausalito, Heath has a showroom and clay studio in Los Angeles (opened in 2008); [5] a showroom within the San Francisco Ferry Building (opened in 2010); and their flagship San Francisco showroom and clay studio, co-located with the tile factory in the Heath Building (opened in 2012).
Vernon Kilns was an American ceramic company in Vernon, California, US. In July 1931, Faye G. Bennison purchased the former Poxon China pottery renaming the company Vernon Kilns. [1] Poxon China was located at 2300 East 52nd Street. [2] Vernon produced ceramic tableware, art ware, giftware, and figurines. The company closed its doors in 1958.
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The California Clay Movement (or American Clay Revolution) was a school of ceramic art that emerged in California in the 1950s. [1] The movement was part of the larger transition in crafts from "designer-craftsman" to "artist-craftsman". The editor of Craft Horizons, New York-based Rose Slivka, became an enthusiastic advocate of the movement. [2]