Eva Zeisel: Town and Country Colors

The Colors

The original colors


chartreuse	dusk blue	forest green	gray	metallic brown	peach	rust	sand	white

The colors above are the original Town and Country colors specified by Eva Zeisel. Solid colors include Chartreuse, Dusk Blue, Forest, Gray and White. Peach and Sand are speckled. Rust is usually a solid color, but is sometimes speckled as well. Metallic Brown (a.k.a. Gun Metal) is an unusual brownish

black that is ideally a shiny metallic color. On flatter pieces such as plates and relishes, it tends to be less shiny, more of a glossy dark brown. (You may sometimes find non-Town and Country pieces glazed in these original colors - be careful out there!)

White is the rarest and most valuable of the original colors. Because of its unique properties, Metallic Brown is also a sought after color, especially if it has a highly reflective glaze. Sand seems to be the most common color, followed by Chartreuse.

Red Wing also occasionally glazed the Town and Country shapes in some other colors. Mulberry, Ming Green, Quartette Chartreuse (a.k.a. Lime Green) and Copper Glow are glazes used originally on the Red Wing dinnerware line called Quartette. Copper Glow is easily mistaken for Peach, but it is more of a rose color and is not speckled like Peach. Mulberry also appears on the Iris/Concord dinnerware line.

The non-original colors


copper glow	ming green	mulberry	quartette chartreuse

The value of these non-original colors is difficult to determine; they are not the "original" Town and Country colors, but they are somewhat hard to find, so they can be worth as much or more than pieces in the original colors. Mulberry seems to be the most common of these colors.

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