Ceramics and Pottery Arts and Resources

 

Vintage McCoy Cookie Jar

 

Raiding the cookie jar

 

McCoy, American Bisque, Brush, Abingdon, Regal China, Roseville and Shawnee — all the grand old pottery companies in the USA, made cookie jars of some type or another and they are all highly collectible brands. Likewise in Europe, some of the famous brands like Royal Dalton, Moorcroft, Wedgewood, Royal Staffordshire and Clarice Cliff all produced cookie jars or biscuit jars, as they preferred to call them.  Cookie/biscuit barrels or jars, have been used in England since the latter part of the 18th century. This coincided with the rise in popularity of the ritual of afternoon tea drinking. In the USA, cookie jars started to appear around 1929 and went into wider production during the ’30s, the  Brush Pottery Company in Zanesville being recognized as the first. The golden age  for American cookie jar production covers the years from 1940 until 1970, with several manufacturers rising to prominence.

 

In 1988, Sotheby`s auctioned off Andy Warhol’s belongings, including 175 cookie jars. The New York auction house estimated they would fetch $7,000. After the spirited bidding had reached its final conclusion, the collection had gone for $247,830. Most of the  of the interest was generated by the Warhol name but it also put cookie jars into a different dimension of respectability in the collecting sphere. A discernible lift in the interest in cookie jar collecting followed. Over the decades Cookie Jars have represented various pop culture trends and have quite often featured outlandish designs.

Even newer cookie jars are in demand. Collectors are purchasing  jars made in the `70s, `80s and ’90s  if they are Limited Editions or in mint condition.

 

 

Roseville Art Pottery Jar

 

McCoy Indian cookie jar

 

 

 

Kittens with ball of yarn cookie jar

 

 

White cat with yellow bird Cookie Jar

 

 

 

Bees and beehive cookie jar

 

 

Cookie Jar Memorabilia – Pink Panther

 

 

Aqua Blue Tuscan Styled Jar

 

 

 Antique Limoges Porcelain Iris Biscuit Jar –  FRANCE 1883-1919

( Megan’s antiques – Etsy )

 

 

Antique Macintyre Moorcroft Cookie Jar.

Sold on Ebay for $1,455.

 

 

Glazed mixed with unglazed deep brown earthenware jar

 

 

Lidded Jar – Steve Rolf

 

 

Cavanaugh Ceramicar Blue Bunny cookie jar

Photo-  Bab Crews

 

 

Ceramic Red Orange Bird Jar – raku fired

( Davis Vachon )

 

 

Chinese cloisonné ginger jar – they usually end up being used for cookies

 

 

Vintage McCoy Pottery,W.C.Fields Jar.

Antique handpainted porcelain biscuit jar

( TwinSpruceAntiques )

Soul Tones by Clay Art (California)

 

 

Sarah Walton Ceramic Jar

 

 

Chinese Cobalt Decorated Ceramic jar

 

 

Parrot in Tropical Jungle Jar

 

 

Vintage Cookie Jar Daisy Brinns 1965

 

 

Ceramic Hippo cookie jar –  California USA Pottery.

 

 

Howdy Doody cookie jar

( Purinton  )

1930 Art Deco Betty Boop cookie jar

( Vandor )

 

 

Glenn Appleman Black Corvette Cookie Jar

1984

 

 

Tessa Morgan Sunflowers Cookie Jar

 

 

Covered Jar

Natural Elements Pottery

Jim Fineman

Chinese Enamel Jar

Victorian Teal Green porcelain jar

 

 

” Helen’s Tat – L – Tale ” – mid 1930’s, designed and made by Helen Hutula, Los Angeles

 Her pointed finger and judgment-filled expression makes you think twice about indulging… and  if you give in to temptation, when you lift the top off the cookie jar her automated voice box “reminds” you about the consequences of your snacking! ( Valued at around $4000 )

 

 

Antique English Majolica Biscuit jar 1800’s

( Rubylane)

 

 

Vintage Mushroom Cookie Jar

 

Loetz biscuit barrel with secessionist copper overlay, lid & handle

Country of Manufacture Austria c.1902

 

McCoy Cookie Jar – Red Aunt Jemima

 

 

 

Ceramic Phoenix cookie jar

 

 

Vintage McCoy Sleeping Bear with Honey Pot cookie jar

 

 

King of the Jungle Lion Cookie Jar

( OhDeeDoh )

 

Vintage Royal Doulton Burslem biscuit jar

Vintage Cobalt Hand Painted Biscuit jar

 

 

McCoy ‘Cow Jumped Over Moon’ Cookie Jar

This is a reproduction of a classic cookie jar.

 

Andy Warhol cookie jar collection.

 

 

 

Alien incubate your cookies jar

 

 

 

Bass  Jazzman cookie jar

 

 

 

Catwoman Cookie Jar

 

 

 

Clarice Cliff Secrets  – bomb shape biscuit barrel

 

 

 

Dr. Who Tardis cookie jar

 

 

 

Donald Duck cookie jar

 

 

Scarlett & Rhett Ceramic Cookie Jar

Westland

 

 

Elvis in Turquoise Cadillac cookie jar

 

 

Antique Stove Cookie Jar – McCoy

 

 

Josephine Baker cookie jar

 

 

 

Red Poppy Biscuit Jar – Royal Bayreuth

 

 

 

Vintage Carmen Miranda cookie jar

 

 

 

Popeye Cookie Jar

 

 

 

Two handles Lidded vessel  – Adrina Richards

 

 

 

Foghorn Leghorn Cookie Jar