Early on Red Wing Union Stoneware Company was producing a line of ceramic wares, most of which would now be classed as art ware. Indeed, pieces listed in the catalog, previously mentioned, all have individual page headings titled "Artware Division". Red Wing Union Stoneware Company, at the time, considered a wide range of products to fall under the label of "artware." Current collectors might have difficulty envisioning various sand jars and umbrella stands, urns, large vases, and the many different types of garden wares including flower pots and porch pots with saucers and bird baths as art pottery. But since the company labeled it artware at the time it seemed appropriate to mention it as such in this article.