circa 1950 California Pottery Gilner Brown Bear Cookie Jar: Style Number G-405

Description

Vintage California Pottery Gilner Brown Bear Cookie Jar:
70 years old! Great condition! See pictures for **slight cosmetic chips**
Up for your consideration is a brown honey bear cub that will soon grow to become a 200 + pound brown bear native to North America, Europe, and Asia. The brown bear cub cookie jar, in this listing, is nicknamed a 'honey bear' and as folklore has it these cubs somehow get into the cupboards and cabinets in peoples homes and raid the honey jar dipping their paws into the honey jar and lapping up the sweet, fragrant honey which is made by honey bees supervised by a Bee Keeper close to a bee hive. Fortunately, honey bear cubs don't really raid kitchen cupboards and the honey bear is most closely related to children's stories like 'Goldie Locks & The Three Bears," and other folklore handed down from generation to generation.
The cookie jar, in this listing, shows the honey bear cub sitting on his hid quarters and he has fury ears, big blue eyes with yellow half moons in them for pupils, with bushy eyebrows, a black button nose, a short snout, and his red lips are smiling while licking his 'chops' with his pink tongue, his forepaws look as though he's begging for another cookie, and his short stubby tail in back of him is wagging with delight and he has a fascinating, satisfied look on his face as he has just raided the cookie jar, he is made from, and ate all the cookies mom made that day. The jar is a rather large one and all of the bear cub's fur is so well defined by the potter that created him he almost looks like a real brown bear cub. The entire jar has a satin finish on it almost like bisque ware and the interior of the jar is done in a white underglaze with a glossy over glaze on it making it shiny inside.
Today, 70 years after this marvelous cookie jar was made, the jars have become quite collectible. In fact there are whole societies, written, and online publications for the collection of these and other vintage cookie jars too. So, you may use it as a cookie jar however, I believe that most collector's find these jars as a 'needle-in-a-haystack' find and if you are a novice or seasoned collector of Gilner's serialized cookie jars this one would be ideal for the start of a collection of them or the missing one in a seasoned collector's collection of them.
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