Vintage Robinson Ransbottom "Girl with Watering Can" pattern nesting bowls are in near perfect condition, and at about 100 years old... that is rare, indeed!
The "Girl with Watering Can" pattern is a favorite and was produced in the 1920s. The familiar scene depicts a running pattern of a girl watering Tulips against the backdrop of a clapboard sided house complete with windows dressed in flower boxes. The bowl's rims repeat the line of Tulips seen also at the bowl's base for a charming floral touch top and bottom!
This set is a tan glaze and is in near perfect condition, with the exception of a small, hard to see, chip at the rim of the 10" bowl (see picture of close-up).
Size/s measure (largest to smallest):
1st bowl: 10"Diameter x 5-1/2"H
2nd bowl: 9"Diameter x 5"H
3rd bowl: 8"Diameter x 4-1/2"H
4th bowl: 7"Diameter x 4-1/4"H
In 1900, the Ransbottom brothers started a pottery company in Roseville, Ohio to make stoneware pottery. By 1916 Ransbottom Pottery was the largest producer of stoneware jars in America. Around 1920, they merged with Robinson Clay Products Co. The pottery works shuttered in 2005; at the time, it was the oldest continuously operating stoneware factory in the U.S.
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