Object Details
- Description
- About Homer Laughlin China Company:
- The Homer Laughlin firm was founded in 1871 in Newell, West Virginia by the two brothers, Shakespeare and Homer Laughlin. A long-lived pottery, it survived two world wars and continued until 2020, when it was sold to Steelite, a British tableware manufacturer. Though Homer Laughlin China produced art pottery in its earlier days, it is best known for its Fiesta line, a brightly-colored Art Deco-styled set of tableware that was designed by the noted ceramicist, Frederick Hurten Rhead. Rhead was Homer Laughlin's art director from 1927 until his death in 1942. Fiesta ware is still produced by Fiesta Tableware Company, a division of Steelite. The New York Times called Fiesta “the most collected brand of china in the United States” (Alexander 2002). Homer Laughlin China Company was known for many dinnerware designs and also produced commemorative plates and art pottery vases.
- (Alexander, Kelly, 2002.“The Way We Live Now”. The New York Times, December 1.)
- About the Object:
- Small cobalt blue vase with portrait of woman in period costume painted on a white reserve. A black matte overglaze decoration is painted around the reserve. Slight crazing of the glaze.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- The Homer Laughlin China Co.
- 1906-03-13
- unknown
- 1906
- ID Number
- CE.237947
- catalog number
- 237947
- accession number
- 45696
- Object Name
- vase
- Physical Description
- polychrome (overall surface decoration color name)
- ceramic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 11/16 in x 3 11/16 in; 9.398 cm x 9.398 cm
- overall: 3 5/8 in x 3 11/16 in; 9.2075 cm x 9.36625 cm
- place made
- United States: Ohio, East Liverpool
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
- Domestic Furnishings
- National Museum of American History
- web subject
- Art Pottery
- Record ID
- nmah_578648
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a3-d1f3-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
