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(A quick aside about Alamo and Gilmer: Alamo and Gilmer potteries were related companies and used many of the same designs - some originally from famous Texas potter Harding Black. Niloak is often white clay, and much of the Niloak was heavier with a wider foot (left) or base than many other American potteries of that era.Īlamo and Gilmer are Texas potteries using white clay. See the dry foot on the Camark console bowl (right). See how the pink clay Dutch boy (left) has a pink clay color so his face, base and backpack don't require additional paint?Ĭamark and some Arkansas potteries as well as Texas potters used a white to ecru clay, primarily. Don't confuse this with pink clay–used by Coventry and Kay Finch and a few other California potters, including some Hagen-Renaker. Hull and Shawnee are a cream color with a pink tint to the clay.

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Weller sometimes used yellow to cream colored clay, but just when you think you have learned how to identify these pots by clay color, an anomaly shows up. Take a look at the Watt Pottery yellowware bowl (left). Robinson-Ransbottom, Blue Ridge, Purinton, Watt all made some yellowware with a clear glaze over the yellow clay.

Watt Pottery is in a class I call yellowware, since they used a clear glaze over the yellow clay instead of colors. Robinson-Ransbottom was mostly yellow clay. For an example, see the yellow clay bowl produced by McCoy (right). Roseville, McCoy and Brush are examples of the yellow clay potters. Yellow clay was primarily from Ohio, so most of the Ohio potteries used yellow clay. There are many different shades of 'red' clay, but red and deep pink clays have been readily available to the potter for centuries, and this color often gives the glaze a different look than it would have with another color clay. Of course there are lots more, but if you have a piece of pottery with a red clay base, this is a start. Georgia, Alabama, and North and South Carolina have available veins of red clay that are suitable for pottery, so consider makers in those geographical areas if you have a red clay pot to identify. Jugtown is often red clay, and there are some North Carolina potters who used red clay. Strong used red clay sometimes, too, and Nicodemus is a red clay pottery. Some Italian and Mexican pottery is made with red clay, and much of the southwest or Native American pottery uses shades of red. Note the bottom on the Frankoma piece (right).īlue Mountain pottery of Canada is usually made of red clay, is often unmarked and looks and feels much like American pottery.Įarly Peters and Reed pottery was red clay, too, as were many of the Arts and Crafts pots like Grueby. Ada clay Frankomaįrankoma was also made with Ada and a pink clay.Īda clay was a yellow beige and was earlier than the red clay pieces. Look at the feet on the Frankoma leaf (left). It is essential to look for an unglazed area to determine the clay color.įor example, you probably know that Frankoma was made with a red clay for many years.