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Your Price: $ 75.00
Item Number: 5762
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Manufacturer: David Gil, Cooperative Design, Bennington Potters Vermont
David Gil Coop Design #1202 7 inch teardrop Musician in very early glossy white glaze, with the COOP Man/hand logo partially visible still at the top AND the rectangular Cooperative Design Bennington Vermont mark as well as .99 in black ink. It does not have the rough unglazed rim of the earliest pieces thus I am fairly confident this is a slightly later piece circa 1960. In 1960 most pieces added the words Bennington Potters to the incised mark. I have other designs in this teardrop series which carry the Raymor label.
I recently purchased the same design in white glaze, making it easier to see that the instrument is a clarnet.It is in excellent shape.
I recently learned that when Gil decided to mark his works with shape numbers, he started with the number 1300. However, if an earlier design was to remain in production, they marked it with a number starting with 1200. This explains the numbering and mark on the transition pieces.
They are among the few American studio potteries that turned into production potteries in the midcentury. It evolved into a co-operative of different art potters.
After 1960, they made their bread and butter by making gorgeous modern styled dinnerware that was distributed throughout the US and sold in fine department stores. |
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