Glidden Pottery

Glidden Pottery is a unique stoneware-bodied dinnerware and artware that was produced in Alfred, New York from 1940 to 1957. It is legendary that Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz owned a set of Gliddenware and examples can be spotted if one carefully watches early episodes of the I Love Lucy show.

Glidden Pottery utilized modern production methods of slipcasting or ram pressing, but each of the more than 200 shapes were individually glazed and decorated. And most pieces were intentionally marked with a Glidden Pottery signature or backstamp which varied over the years.