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The museum contains the largest public display of Lotus Ware, an award-winning fine porcelain ware produced only for a short period in the 1890s by the Knowles, Taylor, Knowles pottery of East Liverpool. [4] Also on display are collections of early Rockingham Pottery, ironstone, whiteware, yellow ware, and Victorian majolica.
Grog, temper for clay. Grog, also known as firesand and chamotte, is a raw material usually made from crushed and ground potsherds, reintroduced into crude clay to temper it before making ceramic ware. It has a high percentage of silica and alumina. It is normally available as a powder or chippings, and is an important ingredient in Coade stone.
Marshall Pottery Inc. is the largest manufacturer of red clay pots in the United States. From 1974 [1] to 2015, Marshall Pottery operated a 100,000 ft 2 (9,000 m 2) retail store adjacent to its headquarters in Marshall, Texas, which at one time attracted over 500,000 tourists each year. Marshall Pottery was founded by W. F. Rocker in Marshall ...
Hull Pottery "Ovenproof" mug. Hull pottery began production in 1905 in Crooksville, Ohio, under the leadership of Addis Emmet (A.E.) Hull. The Hull Pottery Company's early lines consisted of common utilitarian stoneware, semi-porcelain dinnerware and decorative tile. The company quickly established a firm market and enjoyed an excellent ...
George Rumrill was an art pottery designer & salesman who contracted with Red Wing to make his art pottery. RumRill shapes were numbered from 50 to 677. [11] [12]) From 1938 to 1941 RumRill pottery was made in Ohio [13] and possibly by Shawnee Pottery, [14] Gondor Pottery [15] and Florence Pottery in Mount Gilead, OH [16]
Ball clays are kaolinitic sedimentary clays that commonly consist of 20–80% kaolinite, 10–25% mica and 6–65% quartz, along with small amounts of organic matter (such as lignite) and trace amounts of other minerals such as pyrite and siderite.
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McCoy is a brand of pottery that was produced in the United States in the early 20th century. It is some of the most collected pottery in the nation. Starting in 1848 by J.W.McCoy Stoneware company, they established the Nelson McCoy Sanitary Stoneware Company in 1910.