Large CASH FAMILY Pottery Pioneer Woman with Bonnet Toby Jug PITCHER

Description: 1945 Cash Family Pottery Old Mountain Woman Hillbilly Granny Pitcher This is a Cash Family Southern Pottery pitcher depicting an old mountain woman or a hillbilly granny. She has a pretty blue gray bow and bonnet hand decorated with pastel colored flowers. Great addition to your Cash Family Pottery collection! Marked: Made by The Cash Family / Hand Painted 1945 / Erwin, Tennessee Condition: No chips, cracks or repairs. Some age related crazing. Dimensions: 7 3/4H x 6 1/4W x 8 front to handle CASH FAMILY POTTERY , Erwin, Tennessee Erwin is a town of about 5,000 in southeastern Tennessee, on Interstate 181 just above the North Carolina line. In the midst of the Great Depression, about 1935 Ray and Pauline Cash opened a roadside pottery stand on Highway 25, three miles north of Knoxville. It started as a rickety tarp covered stall but the Cashes were able merchants and the business grew, first to a closed wooden structure and later to a brick building. They called it the "Cash Pottery Stand" and adopted the slogan, "Everybody Buys Here," with a logo of silhouettes streaming into a building. Prominent among their merchandise were Southern and Blue Ridge Pottery items. About 1945, Ray and Pauline founded their own ceramics business in Erwin they called Clinchfield Pottery, a problematic choice since even today it causes confusion with the earlier Ted Owens pottery of the same name. When Foreman's Southern Pottery liquidated in 1957. The couple purchased its molds and took on many of its skilled women. They continued the tradition of painted stoneware, becoming known for decorative household ceramic items of all kinds. Eventually they renamed their operation the Cash Family Pottery -- by which it is best known today. Among their products were a line of souvenir jugs with hillbilly or whiskey motifs. They carry the predictable motifs of mountain people, including bare feet beards, funny hats, jugs marked with xxx's. All were souvenir shop specialties, meant to be taken home to Aunt Gert and Uncle Bart as proof of a visit to the Great Smoky Mountains or other southern locales. Most bear the Cash Family Pottery mark prominently and often indicate that the jug has been "hand painted." After more than 50 years in business, the Cash Family pottery operation closed about 1989, in part the victim of cheaper foreign ceramic imports. Today its products are considered highly collectible. In 2000 the first reference publication appeared. Written by Allison Burnette, it is entitled " Collectors Guide to Cash Family Pottery/Clinchfield Artware " and contains photos of most of the pottery's hillbilly souvenirs.

Price: 74.95 USD

Location: Dry Ridge, Kentucky

End Time: 2024-10-03T20:03:46.000Z

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