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

Gallery XIV American Art Pottery ©2014 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] / , 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- 1” 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- 1”- 350 / 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)

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