Simple lines, lovely matte green color. Coors Golden Colorado Pottery
9” tall
“After a strike in 1888, the glass workshop created by Adolph Coors to bottle his eponymous beer closed down. As a way to reuse the glass facilities, they were converted into factories to produce ceramics in 1910. Using the rich clay deposits native to the Colorado area, the facility was employed to create both dinnerware and heat-resistant china. With World War I beginning in 1914, trade embargos cut off access to German technical porcelain used in machinery, and business boomed for U.S. made chemical ceramics. The company was christened the Coors Porcelain Company in 1920, and producing ceramics is what allowed the Coors Beer Company to refocus their energies and stay open during the Prohibition.”
