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Minton Pottery & Porcelain
Thomas Minton was born in 1765. By 1793 he had established his own engraving business and was considered to be a ‘Master Engraver’ producing patterns for the Caughley Works, Spode and Copeland among others. With ambitions beyond his success as an engraver, Minton entered the pottery manufacturing business with two partners, Mssrs. Poulson and Pownall, in 1793. The factory and its ovens were built from the ground up and consequently [...] Click here to continue reading.
Samuel Adams (American, 1722 to 1803)
Born in 1722, Patriot Sam Adams gained fame as being the chief agitator of the Boston Tea Party. He served as a tax collector in Boston from 1756 to 1764 and from 1765 to 1774 was a member of the Massachusetts legislature.
Adams organized resistance to the British Stamp Act in 1765 and founded the Boston Committee of Correspondence in 1772. He was a delegate to the First [...] Click here to continue reading.
J. B. Cole
Jacon B. (JB) Cole (1869 to 1943) was the patriarch of a North Carolina pottery dynasty that continues into the 21st century.
After 20 years working for other potters in the Catawba Valley and in the Seagrove area, J.B. established his own shop in 1922. Smart, energetic and ambitious, he catered to the tourist trade by supplying hand-made mass produced art pottery in bright colors.
J.B. left back-breaking traditional [...] Click here to continue reading.
Nippon Porcelain
The “Nippon” in “Nippon porcelain,” refers to an era – 1891 to 1921 – and a place – Japan. Nippon was not a specific line of ceramics, a particular factory or even a style or type of porcelain. It was rather a highly diverse, inexpensive, export-only family of porcelain objects that catered to the tastes of American and European consumers. Its 31 years overlapped the Victorian, Art Nouveau and Art Deco eras. [...] Click here to continue reading.
North State Pottery Co.
Like Jugtown Pottery, North State was founded by entrepreneurs who appreciated pottery but were not potters themselves. Rebecca Palmer Cooper started North State Pottery Company as a hobby in 1924. Her sole potter and designer was Jonah (Jonie) Owen who she hired away from Long Cabin Pottery. Some of Jonah’s work from 1924 to 1925 preceded the company’s first stamp and was unmarked.
Sales at the North Carolina State Fair [...] Click here to continue reading.
Paris Porcelain
American homes, where the family’s roots took hold over 150 years ago, are likely to have some pieces of Paris porcelain prominently displayed or tucked away in a closet. Often referred to as “Old Paris” or with the French “Vieux Paris”, it was brought here by French immigrants, or imported in huge amounts by U.S. fancy goods merchants in the 19th century. But the history of Paris porcelain is not simply a [...] Click here to continue reading.
Billy Ray Hussey
Contemporary self-taught potter Billy Ray Hussey (born 1955) and his wife Susan, own Southern Folk Pottery Collectors Society, a museum, pottery studio, kiln, retail shop and auction house in Bennett, North Carolina. SFPCS’s highly popular absentee auctions are held twice a year – spring and fall.
Hussey’s earliest work was as a boy in the shop of M.L. Owens, his great-uncle. He made a pair of pottery dogs for author Nancy [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jugtown Pottery
Jugtown Pottery and its founders, North Carolina natives Jacques and Juliana Busbee, revolutionized pottery making in the Seagrove area of North Carolina. That revolution began in the late 1920′s when the Busbees brought a young and impressionable country potter Ben Owen (1904 to 1982) to museums in New York City and Washington, D.C. That experience and the vision it stimulated continues to energize the 90+ potters that work in and around Seagrove [...] Click here to continue reading.
Rockingham Pottery
Brownish glazed Rockingham pottery originated in England, where it was named after the Marquis of Rockingham, who produced it at his Swinton pottery.
Essentially Rockingham is yellow ware that is streaked or dappled with a lustrous manganese brown glaze; some is tortoise-shell or spattered yellow. The brown color is part of the glaze itself, which was spattered on the fired clay body. Variations in color were achieved by applying the glaze more [...] Click here to continue reading.
Casas Grandes or Mata Ortiz Pottery
20th century pottery from the Casas Grandes, Chihuahua (Mexico) area has its roots in an archaeological period called the Buena Fe phase which began approximately 1060 A.D.. This was followed by the Paquime era in which Casas Grandes reached its peak as a thriving commercial center during the years 1210-1261 A.D.. During this time the pottery was traded from the Tropic of Cancer to the south, northwest as [...] Click here to continue reading.
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