Pewabic Pottery

Pewabic Pottery is known for its art pottery and iridescent glazes. It was founded in Detroit, Michigan, in 1903 by Mary Chase Perry (1867–1961), a china painter, and Horace Caulkins (1850–1923), a dealer of dental kilns and supplies. The pottery started in an unused carriage barn. Early bowls and vases were marked “M.C. Perry” or […]

American Pottery Marks

These are the marks from American pottery makers. Weller Pottery Mark (1895-1918)   Fulper Pottery Mark (1922-1928)   Grueby Faience Company Mark (1897-1911)   Rookwood Pottery Mark 1902   George E. Ohr Mark (1899-1906)   Roseville Pottery Company Mark (c.1905)  

Roseville Pottery (1892–1954)

Roseville Pottery was founded in Roseville, Ohio, in 1892. The company made stoneware jars and flowerpots in Roseville and at an additional factory in Zanesville, Ohio. By 1910 all Roseville pottery was being made in Zanesville. The company started making art pottery in 1900. Its first line of handmade art pottery was an underglaze and […]

Weller Pottery

The Weller Pottery was started by Samuel A. Weller in 1872 in Fultonham, Ohio, and moved to Zanesville, Ohio, in 1882. Artware was introduced in 1893. Hundreds of lines of pottery were produced, including Louwelsa, Eocean, Dickens Ware, and Sicardo. By 1915 Weller Pottery was the largest art pottery in the world. Weller’s prestige lines […]

George E. Ohr (1857-1918)

George Ohr, the “Mad Potter of Biloxi,” Mississippi, operated his own art pottery from about 1883 to 1909. Ohr’s eccentric pottery style was reflected in his freeform pieces, which were formed from twisted, folded, and crimped clay. He also made realistic hats, animals, and houses that were inkwells or whimsies. Pots were decorated with folded […]

Rookwood Pottery (1880–1967)

Maria Longworth Nichols had been decorating china since 1873 when, after seeing pottery at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876, she began making her own vases at the Dallas Pottery in Cincinnati, Ohio. In 1880 she started the Rookwood Pottery, which made white graniteware tableware and yellow clay pieces. Nichols and her friends also fired […]

Newcomb Pottery (1895–1939)

In 1895 Ellsworth Woodward, on the staff at Sophie Newcomb College, a women’s college in New Orleans persuaded the college to start a pottery class and sell the students’ products. Woodward believed the class would provide vocational training for the women and increase their appreciation of arts and crafts. Joseph Fortune Meyer was chief potter; […]

Grueby (1894–1920)

Also known as Faience Company/Grueby Pottery Company/Grueby Faience and Tile Company. William Henry Grueby started working at Boston-area potteries as a boy. He founded an architectural tile company in 1884 before opening his own Grueby Faience Company ten years later. The company made architectural tiles and art pottery. Most of it had a matte green glaze […]

Fulper Pottery

The Fulper Pottery, established in 1860 by Abraham Fulper in Flemington, New Jersey, produced only utilitarian items at first. It began making its artware line, Vasekraft, in 1909. The pottery had classical and oriental shapes and several kinds of glazes, including the expensive rose shades; Mirror Glaze, a high-gloss, crystalline glaze; and Mission Matte, a […]

Chelsea and Dedham Marks

The monogram CKAW or Chelsea Keramic Art Works, or the name “Chelsea Keramic Art Works, Robertson & Sons,” was used from 1875 to 1889. A cloverleaf with the initials “CPUS” was used in 1891-1892, and a rabbit after 1893. Dedham Pottery mark (1895-1932) Dedham Pottery mark (1896-1943)