🔴All sales final.🔴Look at pictures for condition and measurements. Purchasing means you acknowledge this.Other items listed and remember to follow, so you don\'t miss out on new listings. Combine shipping available where possible when requested.More listed and are being listed.🔴The lid was repaired at one point. Look at pictures. This will be packaged carefully.🔴Vintage Scarce Rare 1920\'s Cookie Jar Jolly Pirate American Bisque Bisque Company, based in Williamstown, West Virginia, produced ceramic bisque and collectibles from 1919 to 1982, including popular cookie jars, planters, and figurines often marked with \"U.S.A.\" and mold numbers. The company is known for its vintage pieces like clown cookie jars, flasher jars, and patriotic-themed items.
American Bisque Cookie Jars started in 1919. American Bisque originally a maker of Kewpie doll heads, was sold to B.E. Allen in 1922 and stayed with the Allen family until the company sold in 1982. The company was located in Williamstown, West Virginia.
As with several other pottery companies during the early production of jars, the history gets a little fuzzy. Pottery companies that were intertwined with American Bisque include American Pottery, Ludowici Celadon and Terrace Ceramics. To further complicate the history, American Bisque made and decorated jars that were (then) distributed by Cardinal China Company.Products:
The company was known for their planters, banks, pitchers and cookie jars were especially some of American Bisque’s popular products. They were one of the few companies that used lenticular printing to create the flasher jars.
One of the more prolific and popular manufacturers of cookie jars, American Bisque jars are well-made, heavy jars and loved by collectors. From the simple canister jar to the holy grail jars, there’s something for every collector.
The American Bisque Company was founded in 1919 in Williamstown, West Virginia. World War I interrupted the European supply lines that imported the popular cartoon-based kewpie dolls from Germany. The company began manufacturing the bisque Kewpie dolls to satisfy domestic demand.B. E. Allen, a part-owner of Sterling China Company, purchased American Bisque in 1922. Under Allen’s leadership, American Bisque diversified its production to include other items such as cookie jars, ashtrays, dinnerware, kitchenware, lamp bases, planters, and vases.American bisque disney figaro kitten
American Bisque Pottery - History
American Bisque suffered two incidents that destroyed the factory: a flood in 1937 and a fire in 1945. Though the building was rebuilt twice, much of the company’s historical documentation was lost.Beginning in the late 1930s, American Bisque produced a line of brightly colored cookie jars designed as popular cartoon characters, animals, and other figures. Notable designers Al Dye and Louise Bauer, daughter of designer Walter Bauer, helped produce many novelty pieces. Bauer’s cookie jars—including “Cat,” “Clown,” “Donald Duck,” “Pig,” and “Thumper”—are among the company’s most famous designs.American Bisque partnered with a few other pottery companies, including the American Pottery Company located in nearby Marietta, Ohio. B. E. Allen’s son owned an interest in American Pottery. At the same time, Joseph Lenhart, who bought American Pottery in 1944, served as American Bisque’s sales manager. Together, the two companies purchased the pottery molds of the Ludowici-Celadon Company in New Lexington, Ohio, when it returned to its roofing tile business.American Bisque also partnered with Cardinal China Company of Carteret, New Jersey, and Leeds China Company of Chicago, Illinois, to make and distribute cookie jars. American Bisque made its popular Disney-themed products using the license held by Leeds between 1944 and 1954.In 1968, American Bisque expanded to make ashtrays, candy dishes, salad bowl sets, and tiered serving trays in a broader range of bright, solid colors. These products were marketed under the Berkeley brand in chain stores and the Sequoia brand in gift shops.A gradual drop in demand for home design financially strained the company. In 1982, Bipin Mizra purchased American Bisque from the Allen family. Mizra changed the name to American China Company and switched its focus to producing institution dinnerware for airlines. In 1983, the factory closed altogether.
American Bisque, located in Williamstown, West Virginia, began in 1919. When World War I interrupted the German importation of Kewpie dolls, a craze for cartoon related baby dolls, American Bisque produced Kewpie dolls to satisfy the American demand.B. E. Allen, a part owner of Sterling China Company, purchased American Bisque in 1922. The company remained in the Allen family until it was sold in 1982. The company diversified under Allen’s leadership by moving away from Kewpie doll production to a range of other products including ashtrays, dinnerware, kitche
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