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Cider Mill Antiques offers a fine selection of yellow ware. This is a kind of pottery made from a yellow- colored base clay that can fire to a warm butter color or a spicy mustard color. American potters began making yellow ware, redware and stoneware items, before the American Revolution on the eastern seaboard of the original Colonies. Crocks, plates, cups, bowls, ladles, funnels, skimmers, rolling pins, and colanders were all made of yellow ware. From one band of color around a bowl to ornate geometric designs covering the entire piece which might be sponged, spattered, applied with putty, rags, or brushes, incised or drawn, in a variety of colors, decoration was all hand-done. Folk-art animals, flowers and pithy sayings were also applied to yellow ware goods.Yellow ware bowls were made in the millions from a period from 1850 to 1930 in potteries like Hull, Bennington, Brush McCoy, and Weller. Most yellow ware is not signed. While yellow ware lost favor slowly and was out of style by the 1930's in this country, it is a popular antique collectible now.
Marcia DeCillo, the owner of the Cider Mill Antiques, has been collecting and selling yellow ware for the past 20 years and always has a wonderful selection for the discriminating collector. Look also for a marvelous article on Yellowware in Country Home Magazine in the July/August issue 2002. Marcia Decillo provided her knowledge and expertise as the Resource for this article. She has released a new article about yellowware. It is available now, Click here! Let her share her expertise with you. Stop by the shop to see her marvelous collection and ask her questions. Marcia recommends John Gallo's book, 19th and 20th Century Yellow Ware for the serious collector. Read the questions and answers from "Ask Marcia " About your yelloware. Click Here!"
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