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RARE! Vintage Mid Century Kitten on Yellow Beehive Cookie Jar, American Bisque, USA

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We are proud to offer this adorable vintage mid-century cookie jar with playful kitten atop a big yellow beehive! Wonderfully detailed with hand painted florals with buzzing bees and generously sized to store a lot of cookies. Made by American Bisque, circa 1958. A excellent example of 1950s kitsch to decorate your kitchen counter!

This piece is in excellent vintage condition for a piece of ceramics that is 70+ years old! Overall condition is excellent, free from chips and cracks. There is crazing which appropriate for a piece of this age and some discolouration on the very bottom. 

Measures 7-15/8" x 11"


1919 - 1982
American Bisque Co.
Williamstown, WV

"American Bisque cookie jars are second only to McCoy Potteries in the number produced. It started in business during WWI in Williamstown West Virginia in 1919 as a Kewpie doll manufacturer as these were prohibited from being imported from Germany during that time. They later expanded to the production of lamps, planters and vases, bowls, serving dishes, ashtrays, kitchenware, and eventually the colorful cookie jars valued by collectors today.

In 1937 the plant was flooded, by the Ohio River. After being reopened it was struck by fire and completely destroyed in 1945. The plant had to be entirely rebuilt from scratch. Years of decline and a sagging market forced American Bisque to be sold in 1982, to Bipin Mizra who operated the plant as American China Company for the sole production of airline chinaware. However in 1983 to doors of the American Bisque factory closed for good.

Very few American Bisque cookie jars are solid colors. They shied away from fruits and vegetables, too, opting instead for a vast array of airbrushing colors and designs that favored animals, people and cartoon characters. Today many collectors cherish the more detailed designs and relief of American Bisque cookie jars over McCoy.

Identifying American Bisque cookie jars can often be frustrating. In most cases they did not mark their jars with anything other than a simple "USA", or occasionally a number. Others were marked with the abbreviation "A.B. Co.". Some jars left the plant with paper labels that have long since disappeared. However you can usually identify American Bisque cookie jars by their unique large wedge shapes on the bottoms."

This company was not originally started by the Allen family, but it was purchased by B.E. Allen in 1922 and it remained in the Allen family until 1982. The factory closed its doors in 1983. American Bisque is responsible for many of the rare collectible cookie jars that we find today.

The American Bisque Pottery, operating in Williamstown, West Virginia from 1919 to 1982, and the American Pottery Company produced popular cookie jars, ashtrays, doorstops, sprinkle bottles, banks, planters, lamps and much more."

Sources:
* Williamstown WV History FB page
* American Bisque Collectors
* The Collector's Encyclopedia of Cookie Jars

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