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Vintage Frankoma pottery from the 1950s. Frankoma Oklahoma! Green Aztec design. Casserole dish with warming stand all in perfect condition. All a little different because they are handmade! No cracks no chips! Circa 1950s.


Frankoma Pottery is an American pottery company located in Sapulpa, Oklahoma. The company is known for its sculptures and dinnerware although the company made many other products including figurines, trivets, and vases. All Frankoma pottery is made in the US from locally excavated clay.
Frankoma was founded in 1933 in Norman, Oklahoma, by John Frank, who was a professor of ceramics at the University of Oklahoma from 1927 to 1936. The name Frankoma was derived from "Frank" plus the last three letters of "Oklahoma". Frank moved the company to Sapulpa in 1938, but rebuilt the factory later that year after a fire.[2]
Frankoma used light-hued local Ada clay in its early products. The light clay was replaced by brick-red local clay in 1953.[2] John Frank operated the pottery with his wife Grace Lee Frank until his death in 1973. The factory was rebuilt in 1984 after a September 1983 fire destroyed most of the facility.[3][4] outlet The company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 1990.[2] The Frank's daughter Joniece ran the pottery until 1991 when she was forced to sell the struggling company. The buyer, Richard Bernstein of Maryland, resold the business in 2005 to Det Merryman.[5]