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CHARACTERISTICS
Colour
This pottery comes in six common base colours: Light blue, medium blue,
dark blue, pink, green, , and white. Uncommon colours will include:
dark green, grey, yellow, brown, and black. I have seen some other
colours such as mauve, but this and other shade intensities were likely
created accidentally due to changes in the composition of the pottery,
or the timing and/or intensity of the firing of these products.
Identification
This pottery was largely identified on the underside with impressed
marks. Although they used numerous marks, the more common ones would
include: "Ecanada Art Pottery", "Hamilton, Canada", "Emery",
(Do not confuse with "Emro Canada", which was a reproduction of Ecanada)
Less common marks would include the impressed letters "DCP", for Dundas
Clay Products, "CPC" for Canadian Porcelain Company, as well as
paper labels. Please see section on marks for examples.
Other common identification marks included: four digit hand impressed
numbers signifying the specific mold, and various hand impressed single
letters used to identify the person who had worked on that particular piece.
Glazing:
Although the vast majority of pottery is unglazed, it is common to find
ashtrays, teapots, cream pitchers and sugar bowls glazed on the inside surfaces.
A large quantity of all glazed honey pots and accompanying maple syrup
pitchers were made in a large variety of colour treatment. These were
produced at the request of a local business concern and usually
identified by either a paper label, "Owl Pen Honey Jug Canada", or a
black ink stamp "The Owl Pen Honey Jug, Ecanada Art Pottery, Designed
by Lucille Oille, RR 3 Coldwater"
This company did produce small all glazed teapots to be used as local restaurant ware, as well as a few all glazed general purpose kitchen type bowls. Glazed novelty items such as schmoos and Santa Clauses were also made.
There is also some evidence that blank molds were sold to individuals who were interested in creating their own artistic touch to them. This is not to be confused with the white applications on a white base which were also produced as part of the general line produced.
Applications
Needless to say, there were numerous molds used for decorative applications to the body of most Ecanada items. In addition to classical stylized patterns, these motifs also included flowers, birds, leaves, plants, trees, animals, portraits, historical events and individuals.
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