I Have Recently Moved And Will Be Downsizing My PERSONAL Collection Of BYBEE Pottery

Please WATCH My Listings For The Next Couple Of Days As I Will Be Listing SEVERAL Pieces

This Listing Here Is For A Green (Dark) Water Pitcher 

This Piece Has Raised Grapes & Vines On The Front, It Measures Approximately 7 Inches In Height And Is 6" Wide At The Widest Point  

Piece Is Inscribed With BB (Bybee Pottery) On The Bottom

This Piece Is In Excellent Condition I Have Taken Special Care Of Them For The Last 15 Years

In Posting These Items, I Have Gone To Bybee's Website, This Piece Sells New For And I Was Unable To Find This Piece Listed. I Am Sure That This Is An Older Piece And No Longer Can Be Purchased. I Live In Kentucky, And I Haven't Seen Many Of These Available.  So, I Am Starting Bid Is $5.99, Which I Am Postive Is A Excellent Price To Start!   

All Pottery Is Oven, Microwave And Dishwasher Safe

Bybee Pottery, As With Most Stoneware, Is Non-Toxic And, Therfore, Safe For All Baking And/Or Serving

Since All Pottery Is Handmade, Size, Color, And Volume Capacity Vary.

  Slight imperfections are characteristic of handmade pottery.  They only increase the individuality of the piece

A Little History About Bybee Pottery

          The oldest existing pottery west of the Alleghenies, Bybee Pottery is located in the small rural town of Bybee, among the southern hills of Madison County, Kentucky.  The old log building has housed the equipment and business of the Bybee Pottery for over a century.  It stands as a landmark of pioneered days.   Legend states that this pottery was originally established in 1809, and actual sales records prove its existence as a thriving industry as early as 1845.

          The process of mining the clay, grinding it in the antique pug mill, throwing and shaping it by hand into articles of ornamental and practical use on the potter's wheel, is very much the same today as it was over a century ago.

          The clay used by the pottery is found in ample deposits approximately three miles from Bybee.  This clay is open-pit mined several feet beneath rich Kentucky topsoil.  History records that this same clay was mined by the first settlers of Kentucky, then taken to Fort Boonesborough to be used for making crude dishes.

          The clay, mixed with water, is ground in the old pug mill and stored in an ancient vault where it is kept moist and pliable.  It is weighed on old balances to secure uniformity, and then thrown by the potter and shaped into the desired form.  Each piece is allowed to dry completely, then it is glazed and fired in a kiln heated to 2200 degrees.  Emerging from the kiln, the clay, now a finished piece of pottery, is ready for sale.

          Walter Cornelison, successor to Webster, James Eli, Walter and Earnest Cornelison, is the fifth generation Cornelison to own and operate Bybee Pottery.  Walter's children, Robert, Paula, and James are the sixth generation in Bybee Pottery.

          After working as an apprentice under his uncle, Walter Cornelison, Ron Stambaugh brought a little bit of Bybee pottery to Middletown, Kentucky, a suburb of Louisville.

Please Visit There Web Site: WWW.BYBEEPOTTERY.COM

Thanks For Looking And Good Luck Bidding!