VTG Hall China Company Gravy Boat Catalog # 2581 Dragon and Flowers RARE EUC

About the Hall China Company:
Hall China was founded on August 14, 1903, by Robert Hall, in the former West, Hardwick and George Pottery facility, following the dissolution of the two-year-old East Liverpool Potteries Company. He began making dinnerware and toilet seats, but soon found that institutional ware such as bedpans, chamber pots and pitchers was more profitable.

Robert Hall died just a year after launching the company. One of his eight children, Robert Taggart Hall, took over the company and almost immediately began developments to introduce the single-fire process, which had first been used centuries earlier by Chinese potters during their Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). His aim was to change from the two-firing manufacturing method; the first biscuit firing and then the glost firing. With the help of staff chemists and ceramic engineers, Hall experimented from 1904 until 1911, when a success was achieved. The new process fused together the white body, color and glaze when it was fired at a temperature of 2,400 degrees Fahrenheit. The new glazes allowed the creation of brilliant colors never before seen on American china: 47 colors developed for the new process, which allowed for rapid expansion of the company and its product selections at the onset of World War I.