Vintage 1940’s Delee Art California Pottery Boy & Girl Planter Kitsch For Sale

The selected item is a vintage DeLee Art California Pottery figural girl planter from the 1940s. It is part of a collectible matching set that typically includes a companion boy planter, which can be seen blurred in the background of your image.Key CharacteristicsBrand/Origin: Produced by DeLee Art, a prominent mid-century California Art Pottery studio active during the 1940s and 1950s.Design Traits: These figurines are well-known for their distinct stylized faces, featuring closed eyes with long, delicate eyelashes.Function: Hand-painted ceramic piece featuring an integrated small bucket or basket section designed to act as a bud vase or miniature succulent planter.

The "414" stamped or incised on the bottom is the original vintage mold number (or style number) assigned by the DeLee Art pottery studio [1, 9].Mid-century California pottery companies used these numbers to keep track of their factory designs, assembly lines, and wholesale catalog ordering.What This Number Tells UsThe Matching Set: The number 414 refers to this exact "Girl with Bucket" design. Her matching companion boy planter (visible in your background) will typically have either the exact same number (if they were sold together under one mold style) or a consecutive mold number like 413 or 415.Authenticity: Seeing an incised style number on the unglazed base ring is highly consistent with authentic 1940s DeLee Art production methods. Many pieces only had paper foil labels on the side that washed off decades ago, making these bottom numbers the best way to verify the maker.

The boy measures 6.5” tall, the boys blue shirt has some minor paint loss please look at pictures

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