Westinghouse Hall China Refrigerator Dish

Item Details

A Westinghouse Hall China refrigerator dish. This little jewel hearkens to the days of the first refrigerators and before plastic was the storage container of choice. Hall China Company was based in Liverpool, Ohio, and in the mid to late 1930s was contracted by refrigerator manufacturers to make leftover, butter, cheese, and water ‘refrigerator-ware’ for their refrigerators. Robert Hall developed the new process of single-firing wares to eliminate a second glaze firing and therefore speed production. This also allowed for brilliant colors to be used. This small oval leftover dish is slip cast white stoneware with a clear glaze to the inside and a vintage ‘atomic’ orange to the exterior. It has a fitted inset lid with the handle inset into a depression in the lid. There are two incised horizontal lines surrounding the piece and it is ink-stamped to the base, ‘Made Exclusively for Westinghouse By The Hall China Co. / Made in U.S.A.’ Hall China (now a part of the Homer Laughlin Companies) still maintains a manufacturing and visitor/retail space in East Liverpool, Ohio.

Condition

- to fair. There is some wear consistent with age and use.

Dimensions

Item #

15CIN341-116