Antique Vintage Fiestaware Color Chart
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Antique vintage fiestaware color chart. Each year the company continues its tradition of introducing a new color to the dinnerware collection. How to tell old fiestaware from new by color. It is here on the vintage fiesta 2 pint jug that the iconic ring handle is showcased in its largest size. This chart also shows all discontinued fiesta colors.
Pottery online price guide. We ll discuss more about red fiestaware in a later post. He says they are name placement tags for dinner. The original colors included red cobalt yellow light green old ivory and turquoise.
The color of the dinnerware is an indicator used to date fiesta pieces since certain hues were produced for very limited periods. The vintage fiesta collection included around 70 items and collectors usually divide the color schemes into three distinct groups. I have been collecting original color fiestaware for 20 years. The constant evolution of colors makes the brand appealing to a broad and widely varied audience including not only fiesta enthusiasts who have been su.
These early colors are usually broken down into the original colors of cobalt blue light green ivory red yellow and turquoise added to the line in 1937. I have not seen then listed in books. The vintage fiesta 50s chartreuse glaze remains the most desirable color from the 50s glazes and is a delight to find on such a large piece of vintage holloware. The 1950s fiesta colors in the 1950s the fiestaware line was greatly expanded to include chartreuse forest green gray rose and medium green.
For some nice pictures that illustrate a piece of fiestaware with a vintage looking color but updated ink backstamps check out these shots taken over at the selling vintage blog. Since 1936 a total of 52 colors were introduced into the line. When establishing value condition is everything for this atomic age dinnerware these prices are assuming excellent condition with no chips or cracks or repairs and little wear with only moderate factory flaws. Of these colors medium green is often the rarest color to find a piece of fiestaware in.
Fiesta colors my favorite color favorite things color combos fiestaware color combinations color pallets lemon grass up girl vintage kitchen cimg3176 jpg copy lemongrass evergreen retired turquoise shamrock juniper retired sea mist retired chartreuse retired. Recently a friend who was an antique collector indicated he had small rose colored fiestaware objects about 3 1 2 inches long and 1 inch high with a circle on the right end.