Twentieth-Century American Art Potteries

Pottery Location Dates in Business Art pottery was made at these potteries, sometimes for only a short time. Alberhill Pottery Alberhill, California 1912–1914 Albery Novelty Pottery Evanston, Illinois 1913–1915 American Art Clay Company/AMACO Indianapolis, Indiana 1919–present (art pottery 1930–1937) Arc-en-Ciel Pottery/Brighton Pottery Zanesville, Ohio 1903–1907 Arequipa Fairfax, California 1911–1918 Avon Works/Faience Pottery Company Tiltonville, Ohio […]

Nineteenth-Century American Art Potteries

Pottery and Location Date Mark American Art Clay Works Edgerton, Wisconsin (Renamed Edgerton Art Clay Works in 1895) 1892-1895 Avon Pottery Cincinnati, Ohio 1886-1888 Edwin Bennett Baltimore, Maryland 1845-1936 John Bennett New York, New York 1877-1883 Brush Guild New York, New York c.1897-1908 Chelsea Keramic Art Works Chelsea, Massachusetts 1875-1889 Chelsea Pottery Chelsea, Massachusetts 1866-1875 […]

Van Briggle Pottery (1901–Present)

Artus Van Briggle worked as a decorator at the Rookwood Pottery in Ohio until he had to move West for his health. He opened the Van Briggle Pottery in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1901. When he died in 1904, his wife, Anne, who had also been a decorator at Rookwood, took over management of the […]

University City Pottery (1909–1915)

In 1907 Edward Gardner Lewis founded the American Woman’s League in University City, Missouri, to educate women. In 1909 Taxile Doat, the famous French potter from Sèvres, came to the United States to organize, teach, and work at the League’s pottery. Other well-known artists at University City Pottery included Adelaide Alsop Robineau, Frederick Hürten Rhead, […]

Tiffany Studios (1904–C.1920)

Louis Comfort Tiffany began experimenting with pottery in 1898 but didn’t sell his creations until 1904. His firm, Tiffany Studios in Corona, New York, made vases and pottery lamp bases for its Favrile glass shades. Very little art pottery was produced. Some pieces were thrown on a wheel, but most were cast in molds. Vases […]

Teco/Gates (American Terra Cotta and Ceramic Company) (1887–1930)

Teco is the name used today by collectors to refer to the pottery made by William D. Gates. He founded the Spring Valley Tile Works in Terra Cotta, Illinois, in 1881. He renamed it the Terra Cotta Tile Works in 1885, and changed the name again to the American Terra Cotta and Ceramic Company in […]

Stangl Birds

Stangl pottery birds have been produced since 1939. The figurines were based on illustrations in James Audubon’s “Birds of America” and Alexander Wilson’s “American Ornithology.“ Bisque birds were made in molds, then hand decorated, glazed, and fired. Nearly all the birds were marked with the Stangl name, the shape number, the initials of the decorator, […]

Red Wing Stoneware Company/Red Wing Union Stoneware Company/Red Wing Potteries, Inc. (1878–1967)

The Red Wing Stoneware Company opened in Red Wing, Minnesota, in 1878. The company went through several mergers until 1908, when it reincorporated as Red Wing Union Stoneware Company. At first it made pottery flowerpots and vases with a green stain over a tan background. Red Wing made art pottery from the 1920s. From 1932 […]

Pisgah Forest Pottery (1926–Present)

Walter B. Stephen first made pottery with his mother in Tennessee. In 1913 he moved to Pisgah Forest, North Carolina, where he founded the Pisgah Forest Pottery in 1926. He made fire-vitrified ware. He was well known for his turquoise and crystalline glazes and his cameo ware, which featured American scenes of Indians and wagon […]

Paul Revere Pottery (C.1906–1942)

About 1906 librarian Edith Guerrier started offering a pottery class at the Boston Public Library to teach immigrant teenage girls a trade. By 1912 more than 200 girls, members of the Saturday Evening Girls Club, worked at the pottery, named Paul Revere Pottery. It made mostly children’s dishes and tiles. Glazes were solid colors with […]