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Roseville Pottery Snowberry Pattern
Roseville’s Snowberry pattern presents clusters of small white berries on brown forked twigs with green mint-shaped leaves against stylized spider web background, 1946. Colors include blue, green/brown, fern green, and rose (often called pink). A new, but cumbersome alphanumeric marking system was tried with Snowberry. Mark: Roseville in relief. 33 total shapes: 19 were used once, five twice, four three times and two four times. Vases, 1V1, came in six [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roseville Pottery Silhouette Pattern
Roseville’s Silhouette pattern presents leaves, flowers, or seated nudes set against a recessed area in rose, turquoise, tan, and white with turquoise, 1952. Turquoise is often called green. Mark: Roseville in relief. 40 total shapes: 38 used once, one used twice. The hanging basket was unnumbered. All three digit Silhouette shape numbers begin with “7.”
Roseville Pottery
Roseville Pottery Company thrived for 65 years (1890 to 1954) moving from Victorian to Arts and Crafts, from Art Deco to 50s Modern. Its unique “Roseville look” can be spotted across a room. In its day, Roseville produced over 100 innovative lines of art pottery some with as many as 65 shapes in three different colors. But the Zanesville, Ohio, manufactory was hardly innovative or unique in 1900 when it first branched [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roseville Montacello Pattern
The Roseville Montacello pattern originated in 1931. A small line – 16 shapes used once – with an American Southwest flavor. Four abstract floral designs decorate the top right and left, front and back. A wide band and two parallel and narrower bands encircle the top of the pots. Montacello pots are thicker than most other Roseville lines and, all, with the exception of the candleholders, have handles. The line has [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roseville Pottery Panel Pattern
The Roseville “panel” line was featured in 1926 through wholesale businesses in New York, Chicago, Dallas and other larger midwest cities. The designs were influenced by the Art Nouveau style featuring nude or draped figures and floral sprays in Japanesque or whiplash arrangements. Low-relief panels alternated with smooth backgrounds which were done in matte glazes and semigloss used for the raised motifs. Brown coloring was paired with rust-colored decorations on [...] Click here to continue reading.
Roseville Pottery Moderne Pattern
Roseville’s Moderne pattern presents concentric circles flanked by three architectural forms in blue, turquoise with gold, ivory/pink, or brown/green, 1930s. Mark: Roseville impressed or silver paper label. 31 total shapes: 30 used one and shape #799, a lamp/vase, came in three sizes. None of the Moderne line was unnumbered.
Roseville Pottery Mock Orange Pattern
Roseville’s Mock Orange pattern presents a cluster of three or four white blossoms surrounded by leaves and trailing vine on pink, yellow/brown, or mint green/blue background, 1950. Mark: Roseville U.S.A., Mock Orange in relief. 33 total shapes: 30 shapes used once, one used twice. The hanging basket and pedestal were unnumbered. All Mock Orange shape numbers contain three digits and begin with “9.”
Roseville Pottery Ming Tree Pattern
Roseville’s Ming Tree line features two to six puffy blossoms on a twisty branch that often blends with a gnarled branch handle, 1947. Backgrounds are turquoise, mint green, or white. Mark: not available. 23 total shapes: 21 shapes used once, one used twice. All Ming Tree shape numbers contain three digits and begin with “5.” Only the Ming Tree hanging basket was unnumbered.
Roseville Pottery Mayfair Pattern
Roseville’s Mayfair pattern is a utility line with high gloss glaze in beige, brown/tan, dark green/tan or lime green, late 1940s. Mark: Roseville in relief. 21 total shapes: 19 shapes used once, two were used twice. None of the Mayfair line was unnumbered.
Roseville Laurel Pattern
The Roseville Laurel Pattern originated in 1934. Berries on branches with elongated leaves flanked by four vertical lines. There are 19 Laurel shapes. Of these, 18 were used once and one came in two sizes. Laurel is a middle period line designed by Frank Ferrell with above average popularity and below average availability. No mark on the glazed bottom. May be found with original Roseville sticker intact. Fakes imported from Japan [...] Click here to continue reading.
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