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Roseville Pottery Clemana Pattern Roseville’s Clemana pattern presents stylized blossoms and leaves on a basket weave background of green, blue, or tan, 1934. Mark: Not available. 20 total shapes: 17 shapes used once in this line, one used twice. The hanging basket and wall pocket were unnumbered. Clemana is a middle period Roseville line. Roseville Pottery Bittersweet Pattern The Roseville Bittersweet pattern presents orange pods with thin pointed leaves on a mint green, gray, dark pink, or yellow/brown background and twig handles, 1940. Mark: Roseville in relief. 40 total shapes: 35 used once, two shapes (planter and cornucopia) used twice. One shape, #871, was used for the teapot, cream and sugar. The hanging basket and pedestal are unnumbered. Except for a 5″ vase, all Bittersweet shape numbers contain [...] Click here to continue reading. Roseville Artwood Pattern The Roseville Artwood Pattern originated in 1951. Each of the 13 shapes in this narrow line contains a cutout that goes through the entire piece. Within the cutout are decorative elements such as a geranium, Ming tree, tulip, palm tree, thistle, white flower or various branches with leaves. Artwood has an unmistakable 1950s “look,” but it was not a popular line and thus there is a lot of it in the [...] Click here to continue reading. Rookwood Pottery The Significance of Rookwood: Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati, Ohio, produced some of this country’s best and most highly collectible art pottery. The company, founded in 1880 by Maria Longworth Nichols (1849 to 1932), set the standard for high quality American art pottery. Rookwood also pioneered the use of underglaze slip decoration, employed some of the country’s best pottery decorators, and carefully controlled the production process to reduce errors. Throughout its 87 years [...] Click here to continue reading. Lucie Rie – Ceramist (Austrian, British, 1902 to 1995) Dame Lucie Rie is the most celebrated and widely collected of all 20th century ceramists, eclipsing the position once held by Hans Coper. Issey Miyaki curated an exhibition for her; Dan Flavin created light sculptures in her honor; and she received both the OBE and CBE, birthday honors from the Queen. She studied under Michael Powolny at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule and her first exhibition, organized [...] Click here to continue reading. The Ralph Raby Collection Ralph Raby is a direct descendant of the Chicago retail shoe magnates George and Joseph Bullock. The Bullocks were typical upper-class Victorians, with a sophisticated eye for fine furniture, art and decorations who traveled extensively throughout Europe. The majority of the Raby collection was assembled by the brothers and their wives in the 1870′s and 1880′s. Their travels and philosophy were described by Mr. Raby for a 1984 Chicago Tribune [...] Click here to continue reading. The Schlegelmilch Porcelain Works Fine molded porcelain with transfer or hand-painted decoration was manufactured from the early 1860′s until the advent of World War I by two independent families sharing the name Schlegelmilch in the Germanic state of Prussia and Silesia. (Prussia was later incorporated into East Germany and is now a part of modern Germany; Silesia was then considered to be German Poland). R.S. Prussia The most well known and widely collected of [...] Click here to continue reading. Katya Apekina Katya Apekina was born in 1959, Moscow, USSR. She received Master of Ceramic Arts degree from Stroganoff School of Applied Arts in 1983. Apekina and her family currently reside in the United States. Her work, always bright, radiant, and hopeful, presents her artistic view of Jewish life, past and present. “I enjoy doing ceramics because it is a synthetic art – it combines form, color, texture and adds an unexpected component of [...] Click here to continue reading. Benjamin Perley Poore Benjamin Perley Poore (1820 to 1887) was a significant early collector of American antiques. A writer by trade, Poore was born near Newbury, Massachusetts to parents Benjamin and Mary Perley Poore. The family estate called Indian Hill became the showcase for his eclectic assemblage of antiques. As a youth Poore was influenced by trips to Europe and was especially fascinated by the old Scottish castles and manor houses. He later sought [...] Click here to continue reading. Pillin, Polia Surockin Painter and watercolorist Polia Surockin Pillin (1909 to 1992) turned to ceramics in the early 1940′s when she completed a six-week course in pottery making at Chicago’s famed Hull House. By 1948, she and her devoted husband William had established a pottery studio in their garage in Los Angeles. Her creative work became the couple’s sole source of income. Pillin vases and ceramic tiles are often decorated with colorful, wispy modernist [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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