Eleanore Welborn Disneyland ceramic art Douglas County Oregon 1951 / 1952 PLATE

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Eleanore Welborn Disneyland ceramic art Douglas County Oregon 1951 / 1952 PLATE:
$75.00

\"SATURDAY\'S TOYS Presents...\" a hard-to-find limited edition 1951 / 1952 collectible ceramic plate from Eleanore Welborn. Welborn would experience her most notable contract only three years later as she launched the earliest (and most sought after) line of specialty Disneyland ceramics. This plate represents her first effort in ceramics production.

Features a green transfer map of Douglas County Oregon and the Umpqua Valley \"Timber Capitol of the World\"... her very first ceramic production to be sold on the open market. The piece, produced in a limited edition of 3,000 pieces, was sold to commemorate the Umpqua Calvacade in celebration of the Douglas County Centennial, 1852 - 1952.

Noted as Copyright 1951 by E. Welborn. Reverse of plate also includes the Welborn and Calvacade logos; along with the Homer Laughlin Debutante backstamp for the base plate used in firing the maps in their final design.

While her husband was serving in WWII, Eleanore had pursued her interest in formal art training. She studied painting, illustration and water color under such eminent instructors as Ralph Stohl, Bill Eastman and Carl Gaertner. After the war, as she and her husband settled in Glide, Oregon, Eleanore would explore her interest in ceramics through a local ceramics teacher who had opened a hobby shop for loggers and farmers\' wives. After designing a plate of the county map, she was then invited to produce 3,000 of them for the County Centennial celebrations. The plates sold for $3.00 each and Eleanore Welborn Ceramic and Art Studio was born.

This ceramic plate is approx. 10\"; with hand-painted gold trim.

Still, in very good condition and among the most highly prized collectibles from Eleanore Welborn... from the earliest days of her ceramic arts studio.

For one brief year, 1955 thru 1956, Eleanore Welborn would see her ceramics studio swell with spectacular growth and demand (expanding from her small ceramics studio to a large manufacturing space on Monterey\'s Cannery Row)... only to find her business collapse the following year. Disneyland management opted to send their souvenir china production to Japan and the Welborn license was pulled at that time.

In addition to Disneyland ceramics (sold at the Emporium on Main Street, U.S.A.), it was Welborn who created the beautiful \"Monterey Jade\" ceramics that were first produced in her own studio. She later sold the rights to this unique pottery when she closed her studio. After a brief attempt to continue selling ceramic gifts at Fisherman\'s Wharf in Carmel / Montery, Welborn moved to Southern California where she continued to teach art until her passing in 1973.