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Posted 8 years ago
ho2cultcha
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I love this flower pot i found at Urban Ore today. i can't wait to plant a Lewisia in it! i'm pretty sure that it's Bauer from los angeles - 1920s/30s.
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I think you will find this, like several of your other pots, is also Garden City.
thanks artfoot. i'm pretty sure that this is a Bauer #6 flower pot. garden city did not use numbers on their base, from what i've heard.
It's pretty difficult to tell these plain flower pots apart and it may just be the angle and lighting of the photo, but to me the shape is not quite right for the Bauer "Spanish" pot, the yellow is too bright, and the bumpy surface is very unusual to say the least. The numerals on the undersides are remarkably similar on a variety of manufacturers and are not a reliable means of identification. I'm really a Southern California guy and I've given away my Garden City reference book so I'm not great on the NorCal pottery, but I probably have a couple dozen Bauer #6s in my back yard to look at (I use them too) and none look quite like this.
I know - not much help if I can't tell you who made it (maybe GMcB?). No matter what, it will look just fine with the Lewisia growing in it.
i think that this is an early bauer pot from the 1920s - and the color is called 'sun yellow'. i could be wrong though. thanks for sharing your thoughts!
Bauer introduced their opaque colored glazes in 1930. It was used first only on dinnerware and initially available in only three colors - Chinese yellow, jade green, and delph blue - other colors were added throughout the 1930s. Prior to that, the only yellow they used was on a product called "yellow ware" which had a translucent glaze that made the bisque-fired stoneware appear yellow. As far as I can tell, the "Spanish Pot" shape doesn't show up in the Bauer catalog until 1937. Bauer continued making this shape right up to the end in 1962.
To correct my information somewhat, the glazed "Spanish Pot" starts showing up in 1935. Prior to that, what they called a "Spanish Pot" was similarly shaped with a wider flaring rim but only available in unglazed red earthenware and no smaller than 8".
It also appears (please forgive me if I'm wrong - I'm working from a picture) that the drainage hole in your pot was drilled before glazing - something Bauer just didn't do.
It is not my intention to critical. I think you have a good eye for stuff and I enjoy the pictures of your garden/nursery, but if information matters, we should try to get it right. I have posted (or am about to, if you see this before it gets there) a picture of a Bauer #6 Spanish Pot so you can make a comparison.
i agree completely artfoot and feel indebted to you for your great research! and i thought i had figured it out! i really love the looks of this pot - everything about it and would love to find more of them, so nailing it down is important. thank you a thousand times! yes, this was drilled before the glaze was put on. so do you still think garden city?