Town and Country (Pyrex pattern)

How to read it

Corning brought Town and Country out in 1963 for the fashion for mixing and matching kitchenware. The Corning Museum of Glass’s Pyrex pattern library gives its designer as possibly Philip Johnson and describes how the sets mixed plain and printed pieces: the first four-piece mixing bowl set (400) was all solid colours, brown, orange and yellow, and the four-piece Cinderella set (440) had three solid bowls and one white bowl with the starburst pattern. A second version, with more patterned pieces, was never promoted in catalogues. PYREX is a registered trademark of Corning Incorporated (see PYREX and pyrex).

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The star pattern

Pyrex Love, a collectors’ reference, describes the main design as a take-off on Pennsylvania Dutch hex motifs: orange eight-pointed stars in circles made of small Xs, alternating with smaller brown eight-pointed stars, with two plus signs of brown Xs between them. The stars have eight points, it says, not six. Another version has only the small brown stars in a row, and some pieces carry the full design all in brown. Collectors sometimes call it Old Towne, a name Pyrex Love says belongs to a different pattern.