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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;2manybooks, post: 10236058, member: 8267&quot;]The mold line on the bottom would suggest the greenware (ceramic that has not been fired yet) was mass produced. The amatuerish signature would also suggest it might be from one of those &quot;decorate your own&quot; pottery shops which were popular in the 1960s - 70s -</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;In the second half of the 20th century, a new mass-market type of ceramic hobby industry grew. In the &quot;greenware&quot; business, the customer goes to a shop which supplies raw unfired pieces, along with decorating materials, tools, firing, communal work space, and lessons. The shop owner slip-casts the pieces on-site, using a wide variety of molds purchased from manufacturers and dealers. Most of the pieces are decorative kitsch of one kind or another. The customer cleans the seams of the greenware, decorates it with underglazes and glazes, and the shop does the firing. In the 1960&#039;s-70&#039;s, every town had a ceramics shop like this, either in a storefront or in the home of a hobbyist-turned-store owner. (At one time it was, some claimed, the biggest hobby in America.) The greenware shop fulfilled a social function, as &quot;classes&quot; became a regular weekly &quot;girls&#039; night out&quot;. Again, manufacturers responded by producing molds, slip, decorating material, and affordable electric kilns.&quot;</p><p><a href="http://www.mehlmandesign.com/ceramic-glass/blog-detail/hobby-ceramics-in-america/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.mehlmandesign.com/ceramic-glass/blog-detail/hobby-ceramics-in-america/" rel="nofollow">http://www.mehlmandesign.com/ceramic-glass/blog-detail/hobby-ceramics-in-america/</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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