BRUSH-McCOY 1956 COOKIE JAR,GIRL WITH PIG TAILS PRAYING

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Up for auction is a Brush-McCoy (Brush) Pottery Company of Roseville and Zanesville, Ohio (1911 to 1982), Little Girl Kneeling and Praying Cookie jar in the design and form of a log with a Wonderful Pink Glaze Treatment from circa 1956. The Brush-McCoy Pottery Company can actually trace its beginning back to the original J.W. McCoy Pottery Company of Roseville, Ohio (1899 to 1911). J.W. McCoy started out with his pottery making the usual stoneware utilitarian items and flower pots like many potteries of that era did. He proceeded to get into the manufacture of Art Pottery as time went on and some of this American Art Pottery is very rare today. In the mean time a young entrepreneur and businessman by the name of George Brush started making pottery in the old Union Pottery Building of Zanesville, Ohio in 1907. In 1908 his newly formed "Brush Pottery Company" burned to the ground. In 1909 George Brush took employment with J.W. McCoy and by 1911 George Brush became a partner with J.W. McCoy and the Brush-McCoy Pottery was formed. George Brush was a keen businessman and a skilled manager and this may have been a well planned move on J.W. McCoy's part to keep the pottery he started going and his family in the dealings of 2 potteries. J.W. McCoy's son, Nelson McCoy Senior was already planning to start his own pottery and his father actually spent more time helping him get started and left George Brush to run the affairs of Brush-McCoy. This other pottery was of course the now famous McCoy Pottery Company of Roseville, Ohio (1910 to 1990). Within the time span that George Brush and J.W. McCoy were linked together a 2nd building under the Brush-McCoy name had been acquired and utilized in Zanesville, Ohio. Plans were even initiated to close the Roseville Plant and move operations completely to Zanesville. As it turns out the Zanesville Building caught fire and Brush-McCoy remained in Roseville. In 1914 J.W. McCoy had passed away and the 2 potteries became somewhat friendly competitors with the remaining McCoy family members owning shares in Brush-McCoy. By the late 1910's the McCoy Family completely sold out to George Brush and finally at a company board meeting in 1925 t was a motion and an agreement to drop the McCoy name. The new name officially became the Brush Pottery Company and it remain so until the pottery closed in 1982. Brush Pottery had always made utilitarian cookie jars, but in 1952 they began to offer novelty cookie jars. Many of these cookie jars are marked with a letter "W" and then followed by numbers. These "W" cookie jars were designed by the famous pottery twins of California, Twin Winton. Don and Ross Winton had several potteries of their own in California, but in 1952 they began freelance designing for other potteries. This particular cookie jar is a "K" cookie jar and I have been unable to determine what the "K" actually stands for. In 1956 a Davy Crockett cookie jar was introduced without a mold number, but also in that year Peter Pan, Red Riding Hood and Little Boy Blue cookie jars were introduced and numbered K23, K24, and K25. This cookie jar has never been referred to as anything more than "Little Girl Praying" or "Little Girl on Knees Praying" in any publications I have seen it listed in. However, this cookie jar is also numbered as "K26" and that gives us a very good idea as to when it was introduced. This cookie jar is in excellent plus, near-mint condition. I say this because the only issue or better yet non-issue the cookie jar has is on the bottom and in no way does it affect the integrity or aesthetic value of the jar. I have given you the maximum number of photos allowed and you will see in photo #12 some glaze crazing on the bottom that has become stained. T is also an unglazed rim base ring and it has a few nicks. Unless you plan to display this cookie jar up-side down, this will just never be seen. The mark is impressed and it reads "K26, USA" and the USA is a very typical Brush Style of marking with the "S" in USA exaggerated. T are very tiny crazing lines in the rest of t... read more

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