Bob White Sugar Bowl and Cover

This is a sugar bowl and its matching cover from the Bob White pattern of dinnerware. It is decorated in the handpainted design of quail. The bottom of the sugar bowl is marked RED WING U.S.A.

This sugar bowl is in very good condition. The lid was broken and repaired, as shown in the photo.

In beige and brown with splashes of turquoise, the little bobwhite quail decorate the pieces of the Bob White pattern of dinnerware. The larger serving pieces depict the momma and poppa quail, but on every piece are the little babies.

Bob White was, and remains to this day, Red Wing Potteries' most popular dinnerware pattern. In the late 1950's, Bob White was the most popular dinnerware pattern available from any pottery in America.

Red Wing Potteries introduced their Casual line of dinnerware in 1955. Designed by Charles Murphy, Casual's fun yet practical shapes makes the line as popular today as it was then.

All Casual designs are hand-painted, oven-proof, colorfast and detergent safe.

Red Wing Potteries gradually converted from producing stoneware to dinnerware and art pottery. Starting in the 1930's and through their closure in 1967, Red Wing Potteries produced over a hundred different dinnerware patterns. Forms ranged from traditional shapes to the whimsical. Patterns included every design from floral motifs to the abstract. They produced heavy ceramic, fine china and economy dinnerware sets. Some patterns consisted of mostly flatware with few serving pieces. Some patterns consisted of only serving pieces. Other patterns had both.

On the bottom of most Red Wing dinnerware pieces you will find three little dots. These dots are left in the glaze by the little tripod that the Potteries used to support the piece when they fired it in the kiln. The three dots are not damage, they are a remnant of the manufacturing process and authenticate the piece as being actual Red Wing.

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