The listing, Vintage Treasure Craft USA 1969 Pottery Ashtray from Reno California Pottery has ended.
This ashtray is in excellent condition! No chips or cracks.
It is made to look like old wood but it is pottery material.
Measures about 8" long and 6" wide.
Would make a cute trinket tray.
California Pottery
From a website about Treasure Craft:
The Compton Years
Levin gambled- and won. He bought a factory in Compton, defying the pastel '50s with a daring switch to a rubbed bisque finish called "Wood Stain". Now unglazed brown, the 1956 line was marked C 1957-TREASURE CRAFT-COMPTON, the first of many impressed, dated marks on most '50s-'60s pieces.
Levin's modelers created three dimensional forms with contrasting white crackle glaze highlights- gazelle and drama mask TV lamps, toreadors, and horses among others. As recession hit, the expanding variety filled voids left by the decline of Vernon Kilns, Bauer, and other California potters. A connection to Brayton Laguna's similar woodtone glazes is uncertain; what is certain is that Treasure Craft's modern factory fared much better against imports.
In just a few years, tens of thousands of square feet and 500 workers were employed. Treasure Craft table and giftware spread nationwide- even Laura Petrie had a Barrel cookie jar on the ***** Van Dyke Show. Wild bright colored glazes were reintroduced, this time as an interior compliment to the sienna outer edges. Blended into deep Rorschach blots of blue and green, yellow and orange, these glazes were suited to the psychedelic '60s, and fish, fruit and leaf motifs gave way to butterflies and mushrooms.