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Vintage Fiesta 4 3/4" Fruit Bowl

Here are ALL the vintage fiesta colors.
Clockwise-Starting from top: Turquoise, Gray, Rose, Red, Ivory, Yellow, Chartruese, Original Light Green, Medium Green, Forest Green, and Cobalt. The 4 3/4" fruit bowl was not part of the original line of 34 pieces released in 1936, but was added later in the third round of additions in January of 1938, two years after the tablewares release.

The bottom of the 50's and later (that means the elusive Medium Green as well) is always wiped dry and not fully glazed like the earlier bowls. Instead of the three stilt marks used to sit the pieces on saggers in the kiln, production methods changed in the early 50s which allowed the pieces to be run through the kiln on shelves, highly time-saving and already in effect on the tea pots and sugar bowls.

Dimensions

4 3/16" wide from outer rim to rim, 1 9/16" tall and 2 7/8" wide at base

Marks

Impressed in the mold mark "fiesta MADE IN USA HLC"

Years of production

Circa 1937-1959: Made in all eleven original colors, but rare in Medium Green. Red discontinued by the end of 1942.