Vernon Kilns, an American ceramic company located in Vernon, California, was one of the "Big Five" California potteries.  Formerly known as Poxon China, Faye G. Bennison purchased the pottery in 1931 & produced ceramic tableware, art ware, giftware, and figurines. The other "Big Five" potteries were Metlox Manufacturing Company, Pacific Clay Products, Gladding, McBean & Co., and J.A. Bauer Pottery.
In the 1930s, an art ware department was created. In 1936, Gale Turnbull was hired as the art director and contract designers and artists were hired to create tableware and art ware. Rockwell Kent designed three dinnerware sets based on his famous woodcuts: Salamina, Moby Dick, & Our America. Don Blanding, an Hawaiian poet and illustrator designed four basic tropical design patterns for tableware. Vernon Kilns signed a contract in 1940 with Walt Disney Productions to make figurines & art ware based on Walt Disney's films: Fantasia, Dumbo, and The Reluctant Dragon.
In 1952, Elliot House was hired as art director and continued to work with outside contract artists and designers such as Jean Goodwin Ames and Sharon Merrill. In 1958, Vernon Kilns closed their pottery due to mounting labor costs and competition from foreign imports. Metlox Manufacturing Company, located in Manhattan Beach, California, bought the molds and continued to manufacture some of Vernon's patterns in their Vernonware division.