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West German Art Pottery is essentially a term describing the time period of 1949–1990 and became the early way to describe the pottery because the country of origin, with numbers denoting the shape and size, was often the only "mark" on the base. Even though company names are now better known, and many items are attributed to specific makers ...
Shawnee Pottery Smiley Pig Pitcher. The Shawnee Pottery Company was a manufacturing company best known for producing Corn King pottery and the Pennsylvania Dutch lines of pottery. Both of these lines are considered highly collectible. The company actively produced pottery from 1937 to 1961 from its location in Zanesville, Ohio .
History. Owens Pottery was founded by J. B. Owens in Roseville, Ohio, in 1885. [1] In 1891 it moved to Zanesville, where Owens built a new factory on a site with its own rail spur. [2] It began producing art pottery in 1896, when it introduced the Utopian line with botanical decorations under a brown glaze. [3]
Coordinates: 53°31′34″N 2°19′13″W. Lustreware vase in "Royal Lancastrian Ware", c. 1923, designed by William S Mycock. In this early 20th century image, Pilkington's factory and kilns can be seen on the right of the image, with Fletcher's Canal in the foreground. Pilkington's Lancastrian Pottery & Tiles was a manufacturer of tiles ...
Rookwood Pottery is an American ceramics company that was founded in 1880 and closed in 1967, before being revived in 2004. It was initially located in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has now returned there. In its heyday from about 1890 to the 1929 Crash, it was an important manufacturer, mostly of decorative American ...
Stangl Pottery was a company in Flemington (and later Trenton ), New Jersey, that manufactured a line of dinnerware and other items. The company was originally founded as Samuel Hill Pottery in 1814, until 1860 when it became Fulper Pottery. The name changed to Stangl Pottery in 1955. The company ceased production and closed in 1978, but the ...
potter. Ladi Kwali or Ladi Dosei Kwali, OON NNOM, MBE (c.1925 – 12 August 1984) [ 1] was a famous Nigerian potter, ceramicist and educator. [ 2] Ladi Kwali was born in the village of Kwali in the Gwari region of Northern Nigeria, where pottery was an indigenous occupation among women. [ 3] She learned pottery as a child through her aunt ...
Gouda (pottery) A vase in the "Chryso" pattern, circa 1925, manufactured by Kunstaardewerkfabriek Regina of Gouda, Holland. Gouda is a style of Dutch pottery named after the city of Gouda, where it was historically manufactured. Gouda pottery gained worldwide prominence in the early 20th century and remains highly desirable to collectors today.