Pottery, porcelain, bone china, ironstone, majolica, stoneware, and dozens of other kinds of dishes have been made through the centuries. But each of these is different, with its own characteristics, strengths, and flaws. Pottery is opaque. You can’t see through…
Art pottery was made in America from the late 1870s to the 1950s. The term “art pottery” can have several meanings. To the scholar and researcher, it is pottery that was handmade or primarily handmade and produced in the spirit…
Face jugs like this stoneware devil have been a Southern pottery form for centuries. This 10-1/4-inch jug is marked ‘WA Flowers NC Mtns 1995 AD.’ Photo: Brunk Southern folk pottery was not appreciated by many collectors until the 1980s. It…
After completing a seven-year apprenticeship at the Fulham Pottery in 1812, John Doulton moved to a small pottery in Lambeth, South London. He became a partner three years later, and in 1820 the firm became Doulton and Watts. Doulton and…
Relatively few Scandinavian ceramics were imported to the United States in the twentieth century, but they were an important influence on America designers. From the 1930s to the 1950s, American companies imitated Scandinavian designs that featured banded decorations and flowers…