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Imari Porcelain
About 1854, with prodding from an American naval squadron, the nation of Japan, which had been closed to outsiders since 1637, began trading with the United States and Europe. Suddenly, exotic textiles, lacquerware, metalwork, ceramics and a host of unusual objects became available in general commerce. The appearance of the Japanese wares in the European industrial exhibitions of the early 1870′s caused a sensation. The success in Europe encouraged the Japanese government [...] Click here to continue reading.
Eva Histia (born 1914)
Eva Histia of the Acoma Pueblo is renowned for her owls. Her work has been published, most recently in Berger & Schiffer (2000: 4, 16, 122), and can be found in the Heard Museum’s collection.
Information courtesy of Cowan’s Auctions Inc.
Charles Hart Pottery
Charles Hart was one of a family of potters operating from the 1830′s in the Ogdensburg, Sherburne and Fulton areas of New York. Charles was the son of James Hart, who moved to Sherburne in 1841 to open a pottery, having been a potter in Fulton (then called Oswego Falls) with his brother Samuel.
Charles worked with his father until 1858 when he took over as sole operator until 1866. In [...] Click here to continue reading.
Gardner Factory Russian Porcelain
Founded at Verbilki, near Moscow, by the Englishman Francis Gardner in 1766, and known for its hard paste porcelains, the Gardner factory served as important competition for the Imperial Porcelain Factory, spurring artists at both institutions to produce more complicated wares in terms of both form and decoration. One of two porcelain works in Russia during the 18th century, The factory was situated in the Gjelsk region where local clay, [...] Click here to continue reading.
William Forsyth (1854-1935)
A highly important Hoosier group painter, Forsyth (1854 to 1935) was primarily a landscape painter. He studied at the Royal Academy of Munich. He exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition (1904), the Pan-Pacific Exposition (1915), the Richmond Art Association, the Indianapolis Art Association, and the Hoosier Salon (1925 to 1935). His work is in the collections of the Indianapolis Athletic Club, Indiana State Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and the Herron Art [...] Click here to continue reading.
Eugene Fleischer Collection
There are many reasons to hail the early ceramics collection of Eugene Fleischer. His talents have been legendary in amassing encyclopedic and rarities collections in the fields of historical “Old Blue” Staffordshire and other English ceramics featuring subjects of American interest. His extraordinary collection includes War of 1812 and Liverpool jugs, painted American scenery on fine porcelain, and Parian; and the list goes on. The variety of forms, many unrecorded, has [...] Click here to continue reading.
John Flaxman
John Flaxman (1755 to 1826) was an English neoclassical sculptor and draughtsman. At the age of 19 he went to work for the firm of Wedgwood and Bentley, where he made his living for the next twelve years as a modeler of classic and domestic friezes, plaques, ornamental vessels and medallion portraits. It was in these inventive jasper” and “basalt” ware compositions that the manufacturers of the age, who had conceived and [...] Click here to continue reading.
Fairy Villa pattern is classified as “Most Popular/Sought After” by Jeffrey B. Snyder in his 1995 “A Pocket Guide to Flow Blue” issued by Schiffer Publishing Ltd.
Emily J. Edwards
Emily Edwards was one of the first women designers and decorators at the Lambeth Studios. According to John Sparkes, “her work is ornament made up of an ingenious mixture of classical or conventional forms with natural growths…often gave indication of close study of antique methods of decoration”. As she died at an early age, her work is much more rare than other designers.
Information courtesy of Skinner Inc., October 2009.
The Edo Period
The Japanese Edo period is also known as the Tokugawa period. It is a division of Japanese history running from 1603 to 1867. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa Shogunate which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu. The period ended with the Meiji Restoration, the restoration of imperial rule by the 15th and last shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu. The Edo period is [...] Click here to continue reading.
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