RARE! Sunburst Pottery Birch Bark BBQ Place Setting

RARE! Sunburst Pottery Birch Bark BBQ Place Setting

5 pc Medalta Medicine Hat Alberta Canada Pottery Set 

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 THE GOODS:

Here is a fine addition to your collection, decor or table setting; an extremely rare place setting of the lost Sunburst Ceramics Birch Bark BBQ pattern circa 1960. Most collectors of Canadian pottery have never seen this save for the 2 pieces shown on the web site below.

The place settings contain:

• 1- 3 1/2" diameter x 3" tall log segment mug with twig handle.
• 1- 6 1/4" sliced log saucer
• 1- 7" sliced log side plate
• 1- 6 1/2" sliced log bowl
• 1- 10 1/4" sliced log dinner plate

We have been asked to sell a box of 5 place settings in this pattern and starting in October 2009 we will do just that. The owner has no provenance on these, they are an estate item.

The condition is almost as new, they have never been used. They are lightly crazed and have some glaze issues here and there. All in all they are in excellent display condition.

As stated above, these are extremely rare. Don't miss out, act today! 

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The following is taken from: http://www.canadiandesignresource.ca/officialgallery/?p=1897&cpage=1#comment-124660 and are not my words.

“I had pushed for what was going to be a barbeque deal. We created a birch bark set, all patterned in birch bark with a cup like a chopped log and a twig of a branch for a handle. I had a chance to put that with Dairy Queens all across the United States. The fire smashed it all. It was a heart breaker.”
- Malcolm McArthur, New Medalta Ceramics*

According to owner/manager Malcolm McArthur, New Medalta Ceramics was on the verge of real profitability when a fire on Christmas Eve day 1958, left much of the factory in ruins. The fire marked the end for New Medalta and presumably for the deal with Dairy Queen, but not for McArthur. By 1960 he convinced the Thrall family from Lethbridge Alberta to launch Sunburst Ceramics under his management.

Which brings us to the dishes shown here, the glaze certainly appears to mimic birch bark and the plate with its hand-painted details, looks as though it has been sliced from a large log. I haven’t been able to find any specific mention of these pieces from Sunburst, but I can’t help thinking that just maybe they were an attempt to revive the earlier design and perhaps even the deal with Dairy Queen. Sunburst moved to Lethbridge, AB. in 1966 (these are clearly marked Medecine Hat) and this line doesn’t appear in the catalogues from ‘64 to ‘66, so they likely date from between 1960 and 1963. However, if my (totally unsubstantiated) theory is correct, these may be some of the first things produced by Sunburst before McArthur left the company only a few months later.

-Michael Erdmann

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