Vintage Original Harlequin Color Fiesta Juice Pitcher
Offered is a Vintage Original Harlequin Yellow Color Fiesta Juice Pitcher. It is in pristine shape with no chips, cracks or repairs with the exception of one small factory flaw on one side. It is 6” in height. These were made between 1936 and 1959 based on the color.
Fiesta Information:
Fiesta is the most popular American dinnerware. It was designed by an Englishman, Frederick Hurten Rhead and made by the Homer Laughlin Pottery Company beginning in 1936. It began with 5 colors – red (that looks orange), blue (cobalt), green (light or original green), yellow (light) and ivory and adding turquoise in 1937. A Harlequin Yellow was also offered in some pieces.
Of the original colors, light green, ivory and cobalt stopped being made in 1951. Red was made from 1936 to 1943 and 1959 to 1972 (a hiatus based on the need for uranium that makes the color during the war years). Turquoise and the lighter yellow were made until 1969. Additional colors were added Rose, Grey, Forest Green and Chartruse from 1951 to 1959 and a medium green from 1959 to 1969. The original Fiesta Ware designs stopped being made in 1959. Thereafter Fiesta Ironstone was made, ending in 1973.
Later, for the 50th anniversary of this fantastic pottery, a new reproduced line was made in 1986. Post 86 had new colors like white, cinnabar, periwinkle, seamist, persimmon, Sunflower, Plum and Shamrock. Of the old colors, there were new versions of rose, cobalt and turquoise.
The marks are specific and on most items, but some are generally not marked such as salt & pepper shakers and small tumblers and so on. The Original marks, sometimes hard to read because of early opaque heavy glazing, are:
1) Fiesta/ HCL USA
2) HCL/Fiesta/Made in USA
3) Fiesta/Made in USA/HL Co.
Also, to be assured that you have real Fiesta, the circle spacing needs to be progressively narrow.