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The Roseville Pottery Company was an American art pottery manufacturer in the 19th and 20th centuries. Along with Rookwood Pottery and Weller Pottery, it was one of the three major art potteries located in Ohio around the turn of the 20th century. Though the company originally made simple household pieces, the Arts and Crafts–inspired designs ...
Shortly thereafter, he set up a new company, J. B. Owens Floor & Wall Tile, with a new factory across the street from his former operations. [2] For a few years the new company made both art pottery and tiles, but within a few years it stopped producing art pottery altogether. [2] The company name was changed again, to the Empire Floor and Wall ...
The Roseville Pottery Company operated from around 1890 to 1954, and was a premiere producer of art pottery in the early 20th century. The Ransbottom Pottery Company was founded in Roseville in 1900, and later merged with Robinson Clay Products Company to become Robinson-Ransbottom Pottery Company; Robinson-Ransbottom ceased operations in 2005 ...
The Fifth Avenue and North High Historic District is a historic district in the Short North neighborhood of Columbus, Ohio.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. [1]
The Fostoria Shade and Lamp Company was the largest manufacturer of glass lamps in the United States during the early 1890s. It began operations in Fostoria, Ohio, on May 17, 1890. The plant was run by Nicholas Kopp Jr., a former chemist at Hobbs, Brockunier and Company in West Virginia. Kopp achieved fame for his many glass designs and ...
The Teco Pottery was founded in Terra Cotta, Illinois, in 1899 by William Day Gates, as a specialty branch of his American Terra Cotta Tile and Ceramic Company, which made architectural terra cotta items like drain tiles and chimney tops. Gates's experiments with glazes and forms led him to found Teco (an acronym for TErra COtta) to create art ...
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
An early American yellowware spittoon, an artefact recovered from a site in New York City A pair of vintage yellowware kitchen mixing bowls, one with a green glaze East Liverpool, Ohio , was the manufacturing base of much of the yellowware used in the United States during the mid- to late 19th century.