USA Stoneware | Stoneware Grease Jar

Standard color, as priced, with the white or blue stripe. You can select other colors using the drop-down menu at the top of the page. Some colors are hand-painted and signed by the artist. Please note: the rooster, red apple, and summer splendor design is a decal and is not hand-painted. The Poppy Seed design will feature flowers in both blue and peach, arranged on opposite sides of the stoneware.

See color samples in the click to enlarge pictures of various product examples. The white will match the other blue-stripe products. Depending on its position in the kiln, the actual white color may range from cream to white, with a grayish hue or even a tan/beige tone—another characteristic of old-fashioned hand-turned pottery.

Stoneware can also be personalized for $12 via the drop-down menu at the top of the page. In the comment section at checkout, please leave the name you would like added. Personalized names and messages will be hand-painted.

The standard blue stripe may take 3-4 weeks to ship. Most colors, including white and personalized items, are custom-made to order and may take approximately 8 weeks to ship.

Stoneware Pottery is USA-made in Texas by a small family-owned and operated pottery company, which has been making quality pottery for over 22 years.  Each piece is hand turned by a master potter, hand-painted or finished, and then coated with a lead-free glaze.

Because pottery is hand turned, dimensions may vary slightly. Stoneware pottery may also develop minor imperfections during firing and glazing. All food contact surfaces are inspected for such imperfections before shipping. The exterior may have imperfections that enhance the stoneware's character.

Note: Grease from cured bacon keeps well in this crock. Grease from other uncured meats, such as hamburger, will turn rancid.

The inside of the jar is glazed.  The lid is glazed, but the underside is unglazed, as with the old crocks. This is to prevent the lid from sticking inside the kiln. 

We checked our collection and found that many of the antique pottery jar lids, including butter churn lids, were made unglazed on the underside. Our pottery maker indicates that the lids would stick to the kiln floor if glazed on the bottom.