Cinderella Bank, by Leeds
(Disney?)

From the 1950s

Leeds was licensed by Walt Disney Productions in the early 1950s to use the Disney characters as pottery pieces. Leeds was a distributor and contracted with several different potteries to produce its pottery, including American Bisque. The colors look very much like those used by American Bisque. This Cinderella bank dates to 1950. It does not say Walt Disney. Instead it has impressed on the back the words Cinderella, Unusual Cosmetic, and the copyright mark with 1950.

She is 6 ¾” tall. Her dress has a pink skirt in front and blue in back, a yellow star wand and a light blue bodice. Her hair is yellow.

There is a tiny circle where the glaze missed in the middle of the lettering and a tiny indent under the glaze near the bank opening. There is also missing glaze in a small area under one hand. The piece is like the one pictured on page 152 of American Bisque by Mary Jane Giacomini

Item # 752