Handmade Little Pottery Cats - Sold Individually 1940s game Pretty great graphics on this

Pretty great graphics on this c 1940s tin litho noisemaker made by Kirchhof company of Newark

With Jugtown--which continues to operate today under the leadership of potter Vernon Owens--they sought to meld forms from ancient traditions with those of utilitarian pottery developed in North Carolina

with wonderful little pointy ears and a really charming face detailed with black paint on the eyes

and looking great doing it

When I was growing up

Handmade Little Pottery Cats - Sold Individually 1940s game Pretty great graphics on thisSuch great little bright eyed, whiskered faces on these pottery cat busts, I guess I would call them, one glazed a rusty orange, the other orange marbled with brown and cream. I don't know who made them, but love whoever did, and think they captured the essence of cat curiosity with a glimmer of mischievousness, too perfectly! Sold SEPARATELY, though would be great to see them stay together! Marbled one is slightly larger: 3 1 8" tall; orange is 2 3