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The Museum of California Design's exhibition of the paintings Tyrus Wong produced for Winfield Pottery between about 1944 and 1950. CLICK FOR MORE
Winfield Pottery was founded in Pasadena in 1929 by Leslie Winfield Sample. With just one kiln he produced a line of distinctive art pottery and in the evenings ran the "School of Clayworking." In 1935 Winfield Pottery moved to a larger Pasadena facility and designer Margaret Mears Gabriel joined the company. Square-shaped dinnerware, the first made in California, was unveiled in 1937, as was the bamboo embelishments the company became known for.
Leslie Sample died in 1939 and Gabriel and her husband took over operations of Winfield. They opened a new larger Pasadena plant in 1941 and added more dinnerware patterns. Following World War II the Gabriel's faced a huge backlog of orders, so licensed the "Winfield China" name to American Ceramic Products of Santa Monica, while marking their Pasadena production as "Gabriel Porcelain."

Production of Winfield China remained high through the forties and early fifties, but after imported china reappeared on the market business slowed. The Pasadena plant was closed in 1962. Some dinnerware marked Winfield was still produced in Santa Monica until that plant closed in 1967.

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Poppytrail

Check out this great shirt from Cafepress: Vintage backstamp from Metlox Poppytrail dinnerware of the 1950s and 60s. A classic California design!

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WINFIELD Pottery Pasadena California Modernism
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California Pottery Winfield Bamboo Platter Bowls
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Winfield China California Blue Pacific Creamer EUC
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Winfield China California Blue Pacific Coffee Cup EUC
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WINFIELD CHINA EARLY CALIFORNIA POTTERY DBL SIDE DISH
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WINFIELD CHINA EARLY CALIFORNIA POTTERY TIDBIT RELISH
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Winfield china Retro DRAGON FLOWER plates/ Lot of 3
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50's WINFIELD CHINA Cal Pottery SUGAR BOWL~Ice Blue A+
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Winfield China 9 Pieces Passion Flower
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