Vintage Pittsville Pottery Blue Cystalized glazed 6" x 8" Deco Vase c1930-40s

Description

Overview
. Vintage Pittsville Pottery 6″ Gloss Blue Crystalized Vase Pitcher c1930-40s
. Excellent Condition (No chips, cracks, hairlines, cracks or repairs)!  Some small Factory grinding nicks on the base, shown in pic***White shiny spot are Camera Glare only!
. Marked on the bottom “#503 over a 11-1”
Item Detail
This is a Vintage Pittsville Pottery 6″ x 8″ 4″ Blue Deco Vase c1930-40s.  The glaze is a Wonderful complex Gloss Medium Blue with tiny crystals in it.  Muncie Pottery used the same glaze. so it must be a James Wilkins era piece.  It is in Excellent Condition (No chips, cracks, hairlines, cracks or repairs)! Some small Factory grinding nicks on the base, shown in pic ***White shiny spot are Camera Glare only!  It is marked on the bottom “#503 over 11-1”
A Great addition to your Pittsville Pottery Collection!
History ( https://wisconsinpottery.org/pittsville-pottery/ )
Pittsville Pottery
Pittsville Wisconsin
1931-1943
The Pittsville Pottery was started by a Catholic priest named John Willitzer. Seeking industry for his local parish in Pittsville, Wisconsin, Willitzer, a German immigrant, sent local clay samples to Meissen, Germany for analysis of its suitability as a manufacturing clay body.
A Dr. Julius Bidtel wrote back saying that it could be used for pottery. In 1931 the Wisconsin Ceramic Company was incorporated with the priest as president and with a capital of $75,000. A plant with a kiln was quickly built.
The Depression, however, was not the ideal time to start a new business, and the firm failed in 1932. Willitzer paid $27,000 out of his own pocket to disgruntled stockholders, then started the business up again by himself with limited success. The new venture failed in 1936.
In 1939 Father Willitzer gave James Wilkins and his son William a half interest in the pottery, which then operated until about 1943.
James Wilkins had been a ceramicist at the Muncie Pottery of Muncie Indiana. Thus, some of the ware produced at Pittsville bears great similarity to that produced by Muncie, both in respect to shapes and glazes.
Although Pittsville Pottery was not widely distributed, and certainly not long in production, local collectors estimate that as many as 50 different shapes may have been produced.