The Remarkable Tale of Rookwood Pottery

Maria Longworth Nichols Storer In 1880, Maria Longworth Nichols Storer (1849 – 1932) founded Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati, Ohio. A wealthy young woman, she was inspired, like so many of her contemporaries, by the Japanese ceramics displayed at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial International Exposition. Though she had just one year of formal pottery training and […]