Vintage METLOX POPPYTRAIL Woodland Gold

Round serving bowl with lid and side handles

Made by Metlox Pottery, California, USA between 1959-1979

Condition is excellent

No chips or cracks

Metlox Manufacturing Company was established in 1927 by Willis and T. C. Prouty in Manhattan Beach, California. Prior to about 1934, Metlox Pottery produced ceramic and neon outdoor signs. About 1934, the companies began producing ceramic housewares for which they subsequently became quite well known. The famous Poppy Trail line was introduced in that same year, the design creation of the President Willis Prouty, and the company soon introduced innovations which allowed them to speed production while at the same time lowering their costs. The most highly sought Metlox patterns are the work of the sculptor Carl Romanelli who designed art pottery and dinnerware for the company in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and again briefly in the 1950s.