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American Stoneware is a type of stoneware pottery popular in 19th century North America. The predominant houseware of the era, [ citation needed ] it was usually covered in a salt glaze and often decorated using cobalt oxide to produce bright blue decoration.
A Mason's ironstone plate, 1840 - 1860 Maker's mark from the base of a 1920s Mason's 'Watteau' ironstone bowl (full piece pictured below). Note the "orange peel" texture, a defect, in the surface. Ironstone china, ironstone ware or most commonly just ironstone, is a type of vitreous pottery first made in the United Kingdom in
-- "The term pottery includes many varieties of ware from the crudest vessels of prehistoric times to the most beautiful decorated porcelains, stoneware and earthenware; it also includes many articles such as large grain-jars used in ancient times for storing corn and other dry materials, wine-jars and modern sanitaryware and the large tanks ...
The pottery factory that started in 1861 continues to the present day under the names of Red Wing Pottery and Red Wing Stoneware. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] There was a respite in production when Red Wing Pottery Sales, Inc. had a strike in 1967 causing them to temporarily cease trading.
In 1981 Charles Lisk and his family moved to Vale and developed a friendship with his neighbor Burlon Craig who shared with him the techniques of the Catawba Valley pottery tradition. Lisk built his own groundhog kiln and began making alkaline glazed stoneware. He makes a variety of wares including the traditional swirl pottery and face jugs.
The pottery had two or three employees at any given time. [9] Identifying marks are found on the bases of White Cloud Farms wares. Some are incised with the apple-with-stem. Others have White Cloud Farms legends hand-painted in glaze. Smallish paper labels, rarely preserved, show farmland, trees and a large white cloud on a black background. [10]
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Glazed earthenware vase, Rookwood Pottery, ca. 1900. American art pottery (sometimes capitalized) refers to aesthetically distinctive hand-made ceramics in earthenware and stoneware from the period 1870-1950s. Ranging from tall vases to tiles, the work features original designs, simplified shapes, and experimental glazes and painting techniques.