Untitled landscape in original frame, 17) Left to right: Vase, 1892 Vase, 1904 c. 1915 Glazed white clay with silver overlay Glazed white clay Decorator: Charles (Carl) Schmidt, Vase, 1899 Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, gallery XIV 1875–1959 Glazed red clay with applied 1880–1967 1880–1967 Signed, lower right: C. Schmidt electroformed copper Decorator: Sara Alice Toohey, 1872–1941 Decorator: Edward Timothy Hurley, Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted by Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted 1869–1950 american flames]/ XV / V / 1880–1967 by flames] / 640 / W / Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted 370 -2 ½” ” 190 / 15 - / cut out rabbit Designer: Kataro Shirayamadani, [conjoined ST] / 1892 / by flames] / IV / 328 / D / Z / to / cover edge 1865–1948 GORHAM MFG. CO. / R 491 [inverted V] / [conjoined ETH] art pottery (PO-020-71) Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted (PO-010-67) (PO-044-68) by flames] / 764C / [Japanese characters Bottom row, left to right: for Kataro Shirayamadani] 20) Left to right: 21) Vase, 1903 Gift of Charles Sherman Black Iris glaze line OBJECT GUIDE Untitled landscape, 1927 (PO-073-87) Vase, c. 1916 Glazed white clay Decorator: Frederick Glazed white clay Rookwood Pottery, Daniel Henry Vase, 1898 Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, 1880–1967 From the 1870s to World War I, American designers focused Rothenbusch, active at Goldstone glaze line with some Cincinnati, 1880–1967 Decorator: Charles (Carl) Rookwood, 1896–1931 Tiger Eye glaze Designer: Kataro Schmidt, 1875–1959 their talents on producing pottery that rivaled any contemporaneous Signed, lower right: Glazed red clay Shirayamadani, 1865–1948 Marks: [conjoined RP [conjoined FR] Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted by flames] / pottery in the world in beauty, quality, and variety. Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted 1880–1967 surmounted by flames] / III / 904 / B / W / by flames] / XXVII . / 100- / Designer: William Watts Taylor, 1847–1913 IV / II B Z V / [conjoined CS] 9 x 14 ½ / 170- ¾ as lining / Decorator: Artus Van Briggle, 1869–1904 [Japanese characters for (PO-005-92) The work prominent role. +668 - 3” - outside - / 700 / Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted Kataro Shirayamadani] of America’s At its height, American art 9 ¼ x 14 ½ R by flames] / 745 B / [conjoined AVB] (PO-055-68) art potteries pottery enjoyed production centers Gift of Randall M. and Annie R. Moore (PO-015-94) became the first in virtually every region of the (PO-035-82) 18) Vase, 1927 truly American country although if it had a capital, Storm Clouds: Holland in original frame, Glazed white clay original art to one would have to say it was in c. 1914 Rookwood Pottery, find widespread the Ohio River Valley, where the Decorator: Edward Timothy Hurley, Cincinnati, 1880–1967 success both in clay was right and conditions were 1869–1950 Decorator: William E. the United States encouraging. In the Midwest, Maria Signed, lower left: [conjoined ETH] Hentschel, 1892–1962 Marks: [RP conjoined surmounted Marks: [conjoined RP and on the international stage. Longworth Nichols (1849–1932), by flames] / XIV / V /.../ Storm Clouds: surmounted by flames] / In the decades following the Civil a onetime amateur china painter Holland / 1027 - 2 ½ -200 x / XXVII / 1369 B / War, interest in art pottery grew out of from a wealthy family, founded 5 7⁄8 x 7 ¾ [conjoined WEH] the popularity of decorating china with Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati, Paper label: [conjoined RP surmounted (PO-018-68) painted designs—a pastime dominated but New England (Grueby), the by flames] Paper label: [illegible] 19) Left to right: by women. Beginning roughly Middle Atlantic (Fulper), and the (PO-005-65) with the Philadelphia Centennial South (Newcomb) all became Vase, 1882 Exhibition of 1876, the demand for sites of important potteries. Glazed white clay china—referred to by contemporary This gallery is devoted to the Rookwood Pottery, writers as “the ceramics craze” or superb art pottery produced by Cincinnati, 1880–1967 Decorator: Maria “china mania”—expanded to include American companies now well- Longworth art pottery as an essential element known among historians, collectors, Nichols, 1849–1932 of interior decoration. The industry and connoisseurs of ceramics. Marks: ROOKWOOD / flourished until World War I but 1882 / 102 / [MLN] continued even into the 1950s. All the Above: Vase, c. 1880–82. Glazed white clay, T. J. (PO-017-68) 445 north park avenue, winter park, florida 32789 407-645-5311 www.morsemuseum.org while, American women played a very Wheatley & Company, Cincinnati, 1880–82 (PO-090-94).

American Art Pottery ©2016 Charles Hosmer Morse Foundation, Inc. 1) Vase, c. 1880–82 5) Pitcher, c. 1898–1900 10) Vase, c. 1902 12) Vase, 1902–7 Vase, 1918 Misty Morn in original frame, c. 1913 Glazed white clay Glazed red clay Glazed white clay Sicardo line Glazed clay Decorator: Edward George Diers, T. J. Wheatley & Company, Cincinnati, Biloxi Art Pottery, Biloxi, Newcomb College Pottery, Metallic-glazed white clay Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, 1870–1947 1880–82 Mississippi, c. 1882–1910 New Orleans, 1895–1940 S.A. Weller Pottery, Zanesville, Ohio, 1880–1967 Signed, lower right: E. Diers (PO-090-94) George E. Ohr, Potter: Joseph Fortune Meyer, 1848–1941 1872–1949 Decorator: Frederick Daniel Henry Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted 1857–1918 Decorator: Marie Medora Ross, Decorator: Jacques Sicard, 1865–1923 Rothenbusch, active at Rookwood by flames] / XIII / v / ... / 40 - / 2) Vase, c. 1915–early 1920s Marks: G E Ohr active at Newcomb, 1896–1906 Marks on base: 29 1896–1931 384 - 3 - 2.30 / 8 ½ x 10 ¾ Glazed clay (PO-018-75) Marks: [conjoined NC] / [conjoined MR] / Marks on side: WELLER / SICARD Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted Paper label: [conjoined RP Fulper Pottery Company, Flemington, U / [conjoined JM] / Q 9 (PO-047-69) by flames] / XVIII / ∙2060 / surmounted by flames] New Jersey, 1805–1935 6) Vase, c. 1897–1907 (PO-093-81) [conjoined FR] / 1571 Paper label: “MISTY MORN” / Marks: [FULPER] Glazed stoneware 13) Vase, 1903–10 Gift of Herbert O. and Susan C. E. DIERS (PO-039-69) Grueby Pottery, Boston, 1897–1913 11) Left to right: Glazed white clay Robinson (PO-019-71) Marks: [GRUEBY POTTERY] / Pewabic Pottery, Detroit, 1903–61, (PO-049-86) 3) Vase, c. 1909–20 BOSTON. U.S.A. / I Vase, 1880 1968–present Middle row, left to right: No. 526 Paper label: GRUEBY POTTERY / Glazed yellow clay Marks: [PEWABIC DETROIT] Vase, 1913 Glazed stoneware BOSTON U.S.A. / REGISTERED / T.J. Wheatley & Company, Cincinnati, (PO-022-71) Glazed white clay Sunny Tropics in original frame, c. 1913 Fulper Pottery Company, TRADEMARK / [floral logo] 1880–82 Rookwood Pottery, Decorator: Lenore Asbury, 1866–1933 Flemington, New Jersey, (PO-072-66) Marks: T.J.W. & Co/ Pat Sep 28 / 1880 14) Vase, 1899 Cincinnati, 1880–1967 Signed, lower left: L.A. 1805–1935 (PO-001-72) Glazed white clay with Decorator: Sara Sax, Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted Marks: [FULPER] 7) Vase, 1905 metal overlay 1870–1949 by flames] / XIII / V / ... / 60 - / (PO-065-87) Glazed stoneware Vase, c. 1906 (copper electroplated Marks: [conjoined RP Sunny Tropics / 384 -3” 290 / Grueby Pottery, Boston, 1897–1913 Glazed buff clay with gold wash) surmounted by flames] / 9 3⁄8 x 14 5⁄8 4) Clockwise from top: Decorator: Ruth Erickson, active at Newcomb College Pottery, Rookwood Pottery, XIII / 1065B / V. / V / Paper label: [conjoined RP surmounted Grueby, c. 1899–1910 New Orleans, 1895–1940 Cincinnati, 1880–1967 [conjoined SAX] by flames] Vase, 1936 Marks: GRUEBY POTTERY / Potter: Joseph Fortune Meyer, 1848–1941 Decorator: Harriet Gift of Herbert O. and Susan C. Paper label: Sunny Tropics / L.Asbury Glazed white clay BOSTON U.S.A. / [floral logo] / Decorator: Leona Fisher Nicholson, Elizabeth Wilcox, Robinson (PO-001-79) The Pisgah Forest Pottery, Arden, [conjoined RE] / 98 / 11 / 05 1875–1966 1869–1943 (PO-033-82) North Carolina, 1926–present (PO-009-66) Marks: [conjoined NC] / Marks: [conjoined RP Birches in original frame, Decorator: Walter Benjamin Stephen, [conjoined LN] / surmounted by flames] / 16) Landscape plaques c. 1927 d. 1961 8) Vase, 1907 [conjoined JM] / AV94 / Q 879 B / H.E.W. / Glazed white clay Decorator: Edward Marks: PIsgah ForEst / [potter-at- Glazed white clay (PO-027-70) Garden of [Eden] Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, George Diers, 1870–1947 kickwheel logo] / 1936 / W B Stephen Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, (PO-006-92) 1880–1967 Marks: [conjoined RP (PO-011-84) 1880–1967 Vase, c. 1906–8 surmounted by flames] / Decorator: Charles (Carl) Schmidt, Glazed tan clay 15) Left to right: Top row, left to right: XXVII / . / Vase, c. 1900–3 1875–1959 Saturday Evening Girls’ Club of 87-7- as lining / Losanti ware Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted Paul Revere Pottery, Boston, 1908–42 Vase, 1914 A Florida River in original frame, c. 1915 768-68- 1 50 / 4 x 8 / Glazed porcelain by flames] / VII / 787 B / W / Marks: SEG / LMD / 11-20 Glazed white clay Decorator: Lenore Asbury, 1866–1933 4 x 8 / 25 Mary Louise McLaughlin, 1847–1939, [conjoined CS] (PO-088-88) Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, Signed, lower right: L.A. Paper label: [conjoined Cincinnati (PO-057-66) 1880–1967 Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted RP surmounted by flames] Marks: [conjoined MCL] / CO / 70 Vase, 1911 Decorator: Edward George Diers, by flames] / XV / V / A Florida River / Paper label: Birches and (PO-021-84) 9) Vase, 1879 Glazed white clay 1870–1947 9 3 ⁄8 x 14 ¾ / 384 - 3” - 290 / 50 / X The [illegible] / E. Diers Glazed yellow clay Rookwood Pottery, Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted Paper label: [conjoined RP Gift of Herbert O. and Susan C. Vase, 1921 Thomas J. Wheatley, Cincinnati, 1880–1967 by flames] / ∙XIV / V / 89 / surmounted by flames] Robinson Glazed porcelain 1853–1917 Decorator: Sara Sax, [conjoined ED] Paper label: A Florida River / L.Asbury (PO-073-86) Robineau Pottery, Syracuse, New York, Marks: T.J. Wheatley / 1870–1949 (PO-036-76) (PO-002-79) c. 1904–29 Cincinnati / 1879 / Marks: [conjoined RP Adelaide Alsop Robineau, 1865–1929 [logos] surmounted by flames] / Marks: [conjoined AR] / 17 / 1921 (PO-005-70) XI / 589 F / V / (PO-052-85) [conjoined SAX] / GV. / 1 (PO-013-66)

American Art Pottery American Art Pottery American Art Pottery Vase, 1918 Misty Morn in original frame, c. 1913 Untitled landscape in original frame, 17) Left to right: Glazed clay Decorator: Edward George Diers, c. 1915 Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, 1870–1947 Decorator: Charles (Carl) Schmidt, Vase, 1899 yy XI 1880–1967 Signed, lower right: E. Diers 1875–1959 Glazed red clay with applied Decorator: Frederick Daniel Henry Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted Signed, lower right: C. Schmidt electroformed copper Rothenbusch, active at Rookwood by flames] / XIII / v / ... / 40 - / Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted by Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, merican 1896–1931 384 - 3 - 2.30 / 8 ½ x 10 ¾ flames]/ XV / V / 1880–1967 Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted Paper label: [conjoined RP 370 -2 ½” ” 190 / 15 - / cut out rabbit Designer: Kataro Shirayamadani, by flames] / XVIII / ∙2060 / surmounted by flames] to / cover edge 1865–1948 tery [conjoined FR] / 1571 Paper label: “MISTY MORN” / (PO-020-71) Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted Gift of Herbert O. and Susan C. E. DIERS by flames] / 764C / [Japanese characters Robinson (PO-019-71) Bottom row, left to right: for Kataro Shirayamadani] (PO-049-86) Gift of Charles Sherman GUIDE Middle row, left to right: Untitled landscape, 1927 (PO-073-87) Vase, 1913 Decorator: Frederick Glazed white clay Sunny Tropics in original frame, c. 1913 Daniel Henry Vase, 1898 gners focused Rookwood Pottery, Decorator: Lenore Asbury, 1866–1933 Rothenbusch, active at Goldstone glaze line with some Cincinnati, 1880–1967 Signed, lower left: L.A. Rookwood, 1896–1931 Tiger Eye glaze ny contemporaneous Decorator: Sara Sax, Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted Signed, lower right: Glazed red clay 1870–1949 by flames] / XIII / V / ... / 60 - / [conjoined FR] Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, y. Marks: [conjoined RP Sunny Tropics / 384 -3” 290 / Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted 1880–1967 surmounted by flames] / 9 3⁄8 x 14 5⁄8 by flames] / XXVII . / 100- / Designer: William Watts Taylor, 1847–1913 XIII / 1065B / V. / V / Paper label: [conjoined RP surmounted 9 x 14 ½ / 170- ¾ as lining / Decorator: Artus Van Briggle, 1869–1904 [conjoined SAX] by flames] +668 - 3” - outside - / 700 / Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted , American art Gift of Herbert O. and Susan C. Paper label: Sunny Tropics / L. Asbury 9 ¼ x 14 ½ R by flames] / 745 B / [conjoined AVB] d production centers Robinson (PO-001-79) Gift of Randall M. and Annie R. Moore (PO-015-94) y region of the (PO-033-82) (PO-035-82) Birches in original frame, 18) Vase, 1927 h if it had a capital, 16) Landscape plaques c. 1927 Storm Clouds: Holland in original frame, Glazed white clay e to say it was in Glazed white clay Decorator: Edward c. 1914 Rookwood Pottery, r Valley, where the Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, George Diers, 1870–1947 Decorator: Edward Timothy Hurley, Cincinnati, 1880–1967 nd conditions were 1880–1967 Marks: [conjoined RP 1869–1950 Decorator: William E. n the Midwest, Maria surmounted by flames] / Signed, lower left: [conjoined ETH] Hentschel, 1892–1962 Top row, left to right: XXVII / . / Marks: [RP conjoined surmounted Marks: [conjoined RP hols (1849–1932), 87- 1” as lining / by flames] / XIV / V /.../ Storm Clouds: surmounted by flames] / eur china painter A Florida River in original frame, c. 1915 768- 1”- 350 / 4 x 8 / Holland / 1027 - 2 ½ -200 x / XXVII / 1369 B / y family, founded Decorator: Lenore Asbury, 1866–1933 4 x 8 / 25 5 7⁄8 x 7 ¾ [conjoined WEH] tery in Cincinnati, Signed, lower right: L.A. Paper label: [conjoined Paper label: [conjoined RP surmounted (PO-018-68) nd (Grueby), the Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted RP surmounted by flames] by flames] by flames] / XV / V / A Florida River / Paper label: Birches and Paper label: [illegible] 19) Left to right: ic (Fulper), and the 9 3 ⁄8 x 14 ¾ / 384 - 3” - 290 / 50 / X The [illegible] / E. Diers (PO-005-65) mb) all became Paper label: [conjoined RP Gift of Herbert O. and Susan C. Vase, 1882 nt potteries. surmounted by flames] Robinson Glazed white clay s devoted to the Paper label: A Florida River / L. Asbury (PO-073-86) Rookwood Pottery, ry produced by (PO-002-79) Cincinnati, 1880–1967 Decorator: Maria anies now well- Longworth g historians, collectors, Nichols, 1849–1932 s of ceramics. Marks: ROOKWOOD / 1882 / 102 / [MLN] 1880–82. Glazed white clay, T. J. (PO-017-68) , Cincinnati, 1880–82

American Art Pottery American Art Pottery Untitled landscape in original frame, 17) Left to right: Vase, 1892 Vase, 1904 c. 1915 Glazed white clay with silver overlay Glazed white clay Decorator: Charles (Carl) Schmidt, Vase, 1899 Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, ggalal y XI 1875–1959 Glazed red clay with applied 1880–1967 1880–1967 Signed, lower right: C. Schmidt electroformed copper Decorator: Sara Alice Toohey, 1872–1941 Decorator: Edward Timothy Hurley, Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted by Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted 1869–1950 american flames]/ XV / V / 1880–1967 by flames] / 640 / W / Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted 370 -2 ½” ” 190 / 15 - / cut out rabbit Designer: Kataro Shirayamadani, [conjoined ST] / 1892 / by flames] / IV / 328 / D / Z / to / cover edge 1865–1948 GORHAM MFG. CO. / R 491 [inverted V] / [conjoined ETH] art pottery (PO-020-71) Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted (PO-010-67) (PO-044-68) by flames] / 764C / [Japanese characters Bottom row, left to right: for Kataro Shirayamadani] 20) Left to right: 21) Vase, 1903 Gift of Charles Sherman Black Iris glaze line OBJECT GUIDE Untitled landscape, 1927 (PO-073-87) Vase, c. 1916 Glazed white clay Decorator: Frederick Glazed white clay Rookwood Pottery, Daniel Henry Vase, 1898 Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, 1880–1967 From the 1870s to World War I, American designers focused Rothenbusch, active at Goldstone glaze line with some Cincinnati, 1880–1967 Decorator: Charles (Carl) Rookwood, 1896–1931 Tiger Eye glaze Designer: Kataro Schmidt, 1875–1959 their talents on producing pottery that rivaled any contemporaneous Signed, lower right: Glazed red clay Shirayamadani, 1865–1948 Marks: [conjoined RP [conjoined FR] Rookwood Pottery, Cincinnati, Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted by flames] / pottery in the world in beauty, quality, and variety. Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted 1880–1967 surmounted by flames] / III / 904 / B / W / by flames] / XXVII . / 100- / Designer: William Watts Taylor, 1847–1913 IV / II B Z V / [conjoined CS] 9 x 14 ½ / 170- ¾ as lining / Decorator: Artus Van Briggle, 1869–1904 [Japanese characters for (PO-005-92) The work prominent role. +668 - 3” - outside - / 700 / Marks: [conjoined RP surmounted Kataro Shirayamadani] of America’s At its height, American art 9 ¼ x 14 ½ R by flames] / 745 B / [conjoined AVB] (PO-055-68) art potteries pottery enjoyed production centers Gift of Randall M. and Annie R. Moore (PO-015-94) became the first in virtually every region of the (PO-035-82) 18) Vase, 1927 truly American country although if it had a capital, Storm Clouds: Holland in original frame, Glazed white clay original art to one would have to say it was in c. 1914 Rookwood Pottery, find widespread the Ohio River Valley, where the Decorator: Edward Timothy Hurley, Cincinnati, 1880–1967 success both in clay was right and conditions were 1869–1950 Decorator: William E. the United States encouraging. In the Midwest, Maria Signed, lower left: [conjoined ETH] Hentschel, 1892–1962 Marks: [RP conjoined surmounted Marks: [conjoined RP and on the international stage. Longworth Nichols (1849–1932), by flames] / XIV / V /.../ Storm Clouds: surmounted by flames] / In the decades following the Civil a onetime amateur china painter Holland / 1027 - 2 ½ -200 x / XXVII / 1369 B / War, interest in art pottery grew out of from a wealthy family, founded 5 7⁄8 x 7 ¾ [conjoined WEH] the popularity of decorating china with Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati, Paper label: [conjoined RP surmounted (PO-018-68) painted designs—a pastime dominated but New England (Grueby), the by flames] Paper label: [illegible] 19) Left to right: by women. Beginning roughly Middle Atlantic (Fulper), and the (PO-005-65) with the Philadelphia Centennial South (Newcomb) all became Vase, 1882 Exhibition of 1876, the demand for sites of important potteries. Glazed white clay china—referred to by contemporary This gallery is devoted to the Rookwood Pottery, writers as “the ceramics craze” or superb art pottery produced by Cincinnati, 1880–1967 Decorator: Maria “china mania”—expanded to include American companies now well- Longworth art pottery as an essential element known among historians, collectors, Nichols, 1849–1932 of interior decoration. The industry and connoisseurs of ceramics. Marks: ROOKWOOD / flourished until World War I but 1882 / 102 / [MLN] continued even into the 1950s. All the Above: Vase, c. 1880–82. Glazed white clay, T. J. (PO-017-68) 445 north park avenue, winter park, florida 32789 407-645-5311 www.morsemuseum.org while, American women played a very Wheatley & Company, Cincinnati, 1880–82 (PO-090-94).

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