This bowl is yellow ware pottery covered with a brown and green glaze called "Woodland Glaze." Made by the Morton Pottery of Morton, Illinois in the 1920's, it was sponged and spattered and daubed with a brush onto the yellow stoneware and then a clear overglaze was applied. Both the interior and the base are glazed as well as the exterior. The local clay that fired to this yellow color was exhausted by 1940; after that the clay was imported from South Carolina and Indiana, and that clay fired white.
It's a good-sized bowl, measuring 9 1/2 inches across the top and 4 1/4 inches high on a 5-inch diameter round base. Weighing in at just under three pounds, this bowl is sturdy and has NO damage...no chips or cracks or rim roughness. It makes a wonderful display piece, alone or with other spongeware and/or yellow ware.
