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Grueby tile panel at the Astor Place subway station in the New York City Subway A Grueby Faience vase by Wilhelmina Post, made around 1910 A 1906 Grueby Faience vase. The Grueby Faience Company, founded in 1894, was an American ceramics company that produced distinctive American art pottery vases and tiles during America's Arts and Crafts Movement.
Glidden Pottery produced unique stoneware, dinnerware and artware in Alfred, New York from 1940 to 1957. The company was established by Glidden Parker, who had studied ceramics at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. [1] Glidden Pottery's mid-century designs combined molded stoneware forms with hand-painted decoration.
Grueby vases were notable for their simple shapes and a hallmark matte cucumber-green glaze. New York City's Astor Place subway stop is decorated with large Grueby tiles featuring a beaver, in honor of the fact that John Jacob Astor's fortune derived from trade in beaver pelts. The company ran into financial difficulties in the early 1900s and ...
Mary K. Grant, prior to her marriage to Frederic, was the art director at R. H. Macy Co. in New York City. [1] The company agreed to have Mary Grant style the pottery lines of tableware and art ware; however at this time she would not hold an official position. The tableware and art ware lines were produced in solid color glazes.
While salt-glazing is the typical glaze technique seen on American Stoneware, other glaze methods were employed. Vessels were often dipped in Albany Slip, a mixture made from a clay peculiar to the Upper Hudson Region of New York, and fired, producing a dark brown glaze. Albany Slip was also sometimes used as a glaze to coat the inside surface ...
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White Cloud Farms Pottery, also referred to as White Cloud Pottery, was a 20th-century American ceramics studio (1924–1957) located in Rock Tavern, New York, Orange County, some 65 miles north of Manhattan. White Cloud Farms Pottery mark: incised apple. Here an "H" is added as a signature of Holland Robert Bacher. (1930s)