Bauer Pottery

Bauer Pottery Company was built at 415-421 West Avenue 33 in Lincoln Heights,[3] an area between Los Angeles and Pasadena, California.

Louis Ipsen was hired around 1912 as a designer, adding fancy redware items to the pottery lines.

By 1933, the company added ridged or "ring" dishes, including its distinctive Ringware line, named for the concentric circles that mark the pieces.

[2] In 1934, Fred Johnson, Matt Carlton's nephew and an accomplished hand-thrower formerly with the Niloak Pottery in Benton, Arkansas, joined the company.

[3] Bauer Pottery was revived in 2000 by collector Janek Boniecki in a small ceramic studio outside Los Angeles.

The new company introduced a new line, Bauer 2000, featuring pieces based on original shapes and colors from the 1930s and 1940s.

Unable to locate any original Bauer dies or molds, Boniecki reverse-engineered the new line from pieces from his own collection and other vintage purchases.