Cookie Jars

Cookie jars with brightly painted designs or amusing figural shapes became popular in the mid-1930s. Many companies made them and collectors search for cookie jars either by design or by maker's name. Brush Pottery Company made the first ceramic cookie jar and Nelson McCoy made the best-known cookie jars in the 1930s. Listed here are examples by the less common makers. Major factories are listed under their own names in other categories of the book, such as Abingdon, Brush, Hull, McCoy, Metlox, Red Wing, and Shawnee. See also the Disneyana category. For more information, explore our cookie jar, American and Asian pottery and porcelain, tableware, toy, advertising and glass identification guides.