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Royal Doulton Character & Toby Jugs Royal Doulton porcelain character and toby have been made since 1930′s when the firm’s art director, Charles J. Noke, produced a series of colorful character models based on English songs, literature and history. Character jugs model the character’s head (and sometimes shoulders), while toby jugs model the full body. The handle is most often designed featuring icons related to the character. In 1934, the first of over 200 [...] Click here to continue reading. The Miller Family Pottery George Miller immigrated from Germany in 1829 and by 1838 had founded the Miller family pottery of Newport, Pennsylvania. George specialized in utilitarian wares, first in earthenware and later (circa 1860) in stoneware. The Miller firm was the only important pottery venture in Perry County and its products are considered extremely rare today. Over the years five of George Miller’s ten children worked at the pottery including George and Michael [...] Click here to continue reading. Cowden & Wilcox Pottery The Cowden family made pottery under a number of business names in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, from 1861 to 1923. The Cowden & Wilcox portion of this history operated from 1870 to 1881. During this period the pottery was directed by John W. Cowden and Isaac J. Wilcox. Cowden, who died in 1872, was succeded by his son Frederick and Wilcox. The firm was known for its blue decorated salt glazed utility [...] Click here to continue reading. Ack Family Pottery The Ack Pottery operated in Mooresburg, Pennsylvania until 1909, having been started by Daniel Ack in 1854. The pottery was known for its stoneware crocks, jugs, etc. with elaborate cobalt blue decoration of flowers, birds, figures and other devices. Daniel’s two sons, John F. and Edward learned their father’s trade and operated the business after their father’s remove. Edward eventually sought other work and John operated the pottery by himself until [...] Click here to continue reading. New Geneva Pottery In the opening years of the 19th century high quality alluvial stoneware clays were discovered in southwestern Pennsylvania near the towns of New Geneva (founded by the financier and statesman Albert Gallatin) and Greensboro. Beginning as early as 1811 this stoneware began to replace traditional Redware pottery products in the area and it grew increasingly popular through the 1840′s until the Pittsburgh glass industry began to suplanted it. In spite of [...] Click here to continue reading. Sipe Potteries The Sipe Pottery of Williamsport, Pennsylvania was founded about 1867 by William Sipe. His two sons, Luther and Oscar joined the firm a bit later and it became known as Sipe and Sons Pottery. Circa 1875 the Sipes were joined by Abram Young and Joseph Nichols and the pottery was operated as Sipe, Nichols & Co until 1877. About that time Nichols left and joined the pottery of Logan Moore and David [...] Click here to continue reading. The Anna Pottery of Union County, Illinois Cornwall Kirkpatrick, brother Wallace, and father Andrew, relocated to Anna, Union County, Illinois from Mound City, Illinois in the winter of 1858 and fired their first ware the following spring. Andrew senior was a potter born in Washington County, Pennsylvania and worked there and in Knox County, Ohio before moving further west to Illinois. Between 1859 and 1896 his sons built and operated a large stoneware pottery [...] Click here to continue reading. English Spatterware Pottery Spatterware is an early 19th century English china pottery made in the Staffordshire region and known for its colorful “spattered” or “stippled” decoration. Pieces were decorated in one to five colors, usually arranged in stripes or concentric bands. The colors often bordered another decorative device, such as a peafowl, schoolhouse, fort, etc. Today these devices have given their names to the pattern designations used by collectors. The most rare decorative forms [...] Click here to continue reading. Irish Belleek Porcelain The story of Belleek porcelain began in 1857 when Mr. John Caldwell Bloomfield of County Firmanagh noted that the whitewash used on his tenants’ houses was exceptionally brilliant. This led to the discovery of a limepit on his Castle Caldwell estate (the source of the whitewash) and the ultimate discovery that the whole estate rested upon a felspathic clay stratum. Some say that due to the severe deterioration of the estate, [...] Click here to continue reading. Keystone View Company Stereographs or views are paired images of two slightly different views. These images are created with a two-lens camera. The lenses are offset at about the same spacing as with the distance between human eyes. The dual-lens camera produces paired-stereographic negatives. Load a stereograph into a stereo viewer and the user can see the paired views as if they were a single photograph. Consequently, the stereoscopically combined photographs transform into a [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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