A round ceramic tidbit tray from Stangl decorated with colorful flowering fruit.  The tray measures 10" across and 5" high to the top of the plated metal handle.  The bottom is signed "Stangl" and the condition is very good, but with light tarnish to the removable handle.

Stangl Pottery of New Jersey

The origins of Stangl Pottery began in 1810 when Samuel Hill founded Hill Pottery in Flemington, New Jersey.  Hill Pottery produced utilitarian pottery and drain pipes and did so until the 1860s when Abram Fulper bought Hill Pottery and in 1900 renamed the company Fulper Pottery Company.  In 1910, Martin Stangl was hired as a ceramist at Fulper.  After a stint at Haeger Pottery, Stangl returned to Fulper and in 1926, became its vice president.  In 1929 after t