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Celtic Harvest The Celtic Harvest line of wares was produced from 1937 to 1941 with additional production after WWII until 1964. Many forms of the pattern included a plated metal part (usually chrome), made by the Celtic Company(pronounced Keltic), hence the Celtic portion of the pattern’s name. Harvest refers to the pattern when there is no plated additions. Celtic Harvest wares have relief decoration relief molded into the body of the pottery. These [...] Click here to continue reading. Wheatley Pottery Wheatley Art Pottery was the product of Cincinnati potter Thomas Jerome Wheatley, who began potting in the 1880′s. His first product was Cincinnati Limoges-style pottery, made in competition with Maria Longworth Nichols of the Rookwood Pottery and Mary Louise McLaughlin. It seems that all three claimed to invented the Cincinnati Limoges technique and lawsuits followed. This period of Wheatley’s work is of historical interest, but fails to distinguish itself from the competition. [...] Click here to continue reading. Gaudy Dutch Earthenware Gaudy Dutch is a soft-paste earthenware, or pearlware, made by British potteries for the American export market, especially the color loving “Pennsylvania Dutch”, from approximately 1800 to 1840. The ware was polychrome decorated in imitation of the Japanese Imari porcelains in shades of red, black, blue, green and yellow. A variety of forms, including plates, cup-plates, coffee and teapots, sugar bowls and cream pitchers were made in sixteen patterns: Butterfly, Carnation, [...] Click here to continue reading. Van Briggle Pottery The Van Briggle Pottery was established in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1900 by Artus Van Briggle and his wife Anne Gregory and was producing art wares by 1901. Artus Van Briggle had been a leading decorator at the Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati and had studied abroad before his poor health forced the move to Colorado. The early pieces were modeled by Artus and Anne and a mold was made to produce [...] Click here to continue reading. Dedham Pottery The Dedham Pottery manufactured over fifty patterns of tableware – almost all having horticultural or zoological based designs – in East Dedham, Massachusetts, during the period 1895 to 1943. It was the successor to the Chelsea Pottery (1891 to 1895) and operated by the Robertson family of potters. Dedham ware is noted for its unusual designs in cobalt and white and for its crackle pattern – sometimes in the form of a [...] Click here to continue reading. Lustre ware Produced in all the major British ceramic centers from about 1805 to 1870, lustre ware of all types was created by introducing a metalic solution to the base pottery before firing. This solution was most often a mixture of nitric and hydrochloric acids – called aqua regia – plus the metalic element required to produce the desired color. The addition of platium and arsenic produced a sliver lustre, gold in aqua regia [...] Click here to continue reading. Parian was first marketed in 1846 by the British pottery firm of Copeland as a white porcelain-like body, slightly translucent. Named “Parian” by the Minton pottery, this ware was introduced by Wedgwood in 1848 as “Carrara Ware”. This pottery type has come to be known as Parian generically, regardless of manufactory, and in its pure white form, was used mainly for figures, groups and busts. Wedgwood also made other shapes in Parian, particularly ornamental [...] Click here to continue reading. Gouda Pottery Pottery has been made in Gouda, Holland, since at least the 1600′s. Today’s collectors most often encounter the work of two later potteries, the “Zenith” pottery in operation during the 18th century, and the “Zuid-Hollandsche” pottery which opened in 1880 and continued in operation until the on-set of World War II. The latter firm specialized in brightly colored products in an Art Nouveau or Art Deco style and marked their wares “Gouda”. The Japanese Taisho Period Taisho Emperor, Yoshihito. (1879-1926). Yoshihito was the 123rd emperor, this traditional list included several nonhistorical monarchs. He was posthumously given the name, Taisho Emperor; called after the name of the era over which he presided, the Taisho Era (1912-1926). His personal name was Yoshihito and he was the third son of the Meiji Emperor. Unlike his father the Meiji Emperor, he did not play an active role in Japanese politics. [...] Click here to continue reading. Crazy for Tea We’ve all seen the movies depicting English life in the 19th and early 20th centuries where a charming hostess calls on Flora, the parlor maid, to lay the tea for company. Flora soon reappears with a gleaming tea service and a plate of crumbly biscuits and sandwiches, and then retreats leaving the guests sipping and chatting. This English, and later the American, infatuation with tea may be easier to understand with [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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