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Martin Brothers "Bird", 1896; with wood base, 20 1/4 in., 51.4 cm high, weight of pottery 15 lb The four Martin Brothers were pottery manufacturers in London from 1873 to 1914. In their own day their Martinware was described as art pottery , and they were one of the earliest potteries making this, but in modern terms they fit better into the ...
Several influences contributed to the emergence of studio pottery in the early 20th century: art pottery (for example the work of the Martin Brothers and William Moorcroft); the Arts and Crafts movement, the Bauhaus; a rediscovery of traditional artisan pottery and the excavation of large quantities of Song pottery in China. [1]
Davis Collamore & Co. was a high-end New York City importer of porcelain and glass, headed by Davis Collamore (7 October 1820 — 13 August 1887 [1]).The firm, rivals to Tiffany & Co. and Black, Starr & Frost, commissioned designs from Copeland Spode and Thomas Minton Sons, that featured hand-painted details over transfer-printed outlines and often rich gilding.
The New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC), formed in 1965, is the New York City governmental commission that administers the city's Landmarks Preservation Law. Since its founding, it has designated over a thousand landmarks, classified into four categories: individual landmarks, interior landmarks, scenic landmarks, and historic ...
280 Broadway – also known as the A.T. Stewart Dry Goods Store, the Marble Palace, the Stewart Building, and the Sun Building – is a seven-story office building on Broadway, between Chambers and Reade streets, in the Civic Center neighborhood of Lower Manhattan in New York City.
Italian Cultural Institute of New York, Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York (William Sloane House) 686 Park Avenue November 10, 1970: Oliver Gould Jennings House: 7 East 72nd Street January 11, 1977: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum: 1071 Fifth Avenue August 14, 1990: Junior League of the City of New York (Vincent Astor House)
An exhibition of early American pottery in 1931 presented a “Commeraw Stoneware Jug.” [2] Although the catalogue did not yet reflect the erroneous spelling of “Commereau” that would become popular with later pottery catalogues, such as Ketchum's important record of New York potters, it also did not mention the ethnicity of Commeraw, leaving the reader to assume that he was an American ...
Nicholson, Nick & Marilyn Nicholson. "Kenton Hills Pottery: An Artistic Success but a Wartime Casualty" Journal of the American Art Pottery Association 12:10 (September/October 1996): 6–11. Payne, Warren & Julie Payne. Clear As Mud: Early 20th Century Kentucky Art Pottery (Paris, KY: Cane Ridge Publishing House), 2010. ISBN 0-6153-1093-1