Most Van Briggle pottery collectors are familiar with the turquoise ming blue, mulberry, and persian rose glaze colors. However, prior to 1912 Van Briggle pottery used a wide variety of glaze colors such as green, brown, purple, red, yellow, blue, gray, black and white.
Other common glaze colors prior to 1960 and their period of production are noted below:
- Mountain craig brown was produced between the mid teens and prior to 1935. The formula for the mountain craig brown glaze was lost in the flood of 1935. This glaze color is somewhat hard to find and Van Briggle vases in this color are seeing increasing collector interest.
- Moonglo is a white matte glaze produced by Van Briggle pottery since the late 1940s.
- Persian rose is a lighter shade of the popular mulberry glaze. Mulberry was produced until 1946 when it was replaced with lighter persian rose. Van Briggle vases in mulberry are typically found with a dark blue overspray. Persian rose was produced from 1946 through 1968. The Van Briggle vase on the left side of the second row is an example of the persian rose glaze color. The vase on the right side of the second row is an example of the mulberry glaze color.
- Gold ore glaze is a scarce brown and gold speckled color that was only produced for a short period of time in 1956. The glaze was made from gold ore from the Cripple Creek mines. Vases in the gold ore glaze color have appreciated substantially in price over the last couple of years.
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