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Roseville Pottery Clematis Pattern
Roseville’s Clematis pattern presents six flat petals around bushy center with string of claw-shaped leaves on autumn brown, ciel blue, or forest green background, 1944. Mark: Roseville in relief. 49 total shapes: 41 shapes used once, two used twice. Four shapes, #5 for the teapot, cream and sugar, #111, vase, #458, console bowl, and #667, the jardiniere, came in three different sizes or variations. The bookends and pedestal were unnumbered. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roseville Pottery Bushberry Pattern
Roseville’s Bushberry pattern presents a type of blueberry with orange nodes along a crooked branch and large serrated leaves against blue, brown, or green lined background, 1948. Some shapes have twig-form handles. Mark: Roseville in relief. 53 total shapes: 45 used once, four shapes used twice, two used three times and one shape, #657, a jardiniere, came in five sizes. The Bushberry pedestal was unnumbered. Bushberry is a middle period Roseville line.
Roseville Bleeding Heart Pattern
The Roseville Bleeding Heart pattern presentsp pink/white blossoms along a slender stem with trefoil foliage on shaded pink, green, or blue background, 1938. Mark: Roseville in relief. 42 total shapes: 37 numbered shapes used once, one used twice. Shape #651 (jardiniere) came in five sizes. Includes three unnumbered shapes (book ends, hanging basket, pedestal). Roseville did not produce a brown Bleeding Hearts, but brown fakes have been found. Bleeding Heart [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roseville Artcraft Pattern
The Roseville Artcraft Pattern originated in 1933. Artcraft is a line of as many as seven jardinieres, some with pedestals and one window box. Key decorative elements are the geometric and telescoping buttresses on four sides at the pot’s median line. Mark: foil label. Since it resembles Futura, Artcraft has above average popularity, but its availability is below average.
Colors:
Orange tan with green buttresses and interior
Green with [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roseville Apple Blossom Pattern
The Apple Blossom pattern presents a spray of white blossoms on pink, blue, or green background with brown twig handles, 1948. Mark: Roseville in relief. 48 total shapes: 38 used once in this line, eight used twice. Shape #371 was used three times for the teapot, cream and sugar. There is one unnumbered shape: hanging basket. All numbered Apple Blossom shapes begin with a “3.” Vases range from six to [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roseville Baneda Pattern
The Roseville Baneda pattern originated in 1932. The name combines “band,” which encircles the top third of the pot and “needs.” Flowers are white with five pointed petals and small, pumpkin-shaped berries. Leaves resemble holly. The background has vertical striations. All Baneda shapes except for the candlesticks have handles ending in a small round form where it attaches to the pot. Baneda is one of the most desirable middle period lines [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roseville Pottery Foxglove Pattern
Roseville’s Foxglove pattern presents one or two slender columns of blossoms with tapered leaves below on shaded pink/green, blue, or green background, 1940′s. Mark: Roseville in relief. 50 total shapes: 40 shapes were used once, four used twice and one, #659, the jardinieere, came in six sizes. The hanging basket, the pedestal and trays at 8,” 11,” and 15″ were unnumbered. There is no such thing as brown Foxglove, but [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roseville Pottery Poppy Pattern
Roseville’s Poppy pattern presents one or two white, yellow or pink poppy flowers on stems with deeply serrated zigzag leaf, 1930. Backgrounds include pink, cream/green, cream/pink, pink/green, yellow/blue gray, and yellow/brown. Mark: Roseville impressed. 41 total shapes: 36 were used once with another used twice. The vase, shape #648, came in three sizes. The bowl, shape #336, came in five sizes from 3″ to 10.” And shape #642, the jardiniere, [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Lightning Express
“Hurry!! She’s a comin, right now!”
Henry Jarrett was a partner in the firm of Jarrett & Palmer that managed the Booth Theater in New York City. In the spring of 1876, they had mounted a successful production of Shakespeare’s “Henry V” starring Lawrence Barrett. After the show closed in Manhattan, it was scheduled to reopen with the same cast in San Francisco. Jarrett contracted with the Pennsylvania Railroad, the [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jacob Werry, Ohio Cabinetmaker
A Mennonite, Jacob Werrey (1838 to 1893) lived in German Township, Fulton County, Ohio. Census records indicate his profession as a farmer, though his obituary identifies him as a carpenter. His furniture was painstakingly crafted in the Germanic tradition and is in every aspect equal to examples of similar heritage from other regions.
Approximately twenty pieces of Werrey-made furniture survive and date between 1863 and 1889. The majority are blanket [...] Click here to continue reading.
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