The company that became Fulper Pottery was begun in 1814 in Flemington, New Jersey by a young Samuel Hill, a potter originally from New Brunswick, New Jersey. Hill was a utilitarian potter and Hill Pottery produced drain pipes and storage crocks and jars from Flemington’s red earthenware clay. Upon Samuel Hill’s death in 1858, pottery [...]

Creativeware 3 Gallon Acrylic Beverage Dispenser $27.00 Acrylic 3 Gallon Beverage Dispenser Will not break if it tips over, making it just as safe and easy to serve cool, refreshing beverage. Lighter fortransporting. Just lift off top with handle and add your favorite beverage, ice, fruit or sweeteners. Features no-drip, easy pull spout for dispensing. [...]

Shawnee Pottery was started in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1937. The company made vases, novelty ware, flowerpots, planters, lamps, and cookie jars. Three dinnerware lines were made: Corn, Lobster Ware, and Valencia (a solid color line). White Corn pattern utility pieces were made in 1945. Corn King was made from 1946 to 1954; Corn Queen, with [...]

Gracetone Pottery was produced from 1959 to 1967. John Frank purchased a Muskogee, Oklahoma company named Synar Ceramics in September, 1957, eventually naming it Gracetone in December. He designed a new line of dinnerware named Orbit, the name based on a circular motif. Many of the original Synar pieces continued production. Unfortunately the company did [...]

Some of the most colorful mass-market ceramics of the 1930s-50s originated in California, where a mix of cultural forces contributed to imaginative new designs in dinnerware and decorative accessories. Pottery was for the patio, porcelain for the dinner table until the kilns of California began mass-producing and distributing imaginative, brightly colored tableware in the late [...]

Rookwood Pottery was founded in 1880 by Marie Longworth Nichols. Rookwood pottery’s initial work demonstrated an Oriental and European influence. Throughout Rookwood’s years they mastered such diverse styles as Victorian, art nouveau, arts and crafts, and art deco. From the very beginning, Rookwood pottery’s production and quality standards exceeded virtually every other American art pottery [...]

Gladding, McBean & Co. formed in 1875 to produce sewer tile for the then expanding American West. Gladding, McBean & Co., began production of Franciscan dinnerware in 1934 at their plant in Glendale, California. Over the years they acquired several regional potteries and expanded their product lines several times to include roof tile, decorative art [...]

Weller Pottery began production in 1872. Weller was founded by Samuel Weller. In 1895, Weller pottery purchased Lonhuda Pottery. With the addition of Lonhuda, Weller began production of Louwelsa. Louwelsa would become one of Weller’s most popular lines and ultimately included over 500 different shapes of vases and bowls. They continued to produce high quality [...]

Nemadji Tile and Pottery started production in Moose Lake, Minnesota, in 1923. Originally producing Nemadji tile, Nemadji Pottery was produced during the Depression to fuel tourist markets, usually in the western and northeastern United States. The pottery was marketed as “resembling” ancient Indian works. This is when Nemadji pottery became known as “Indian” pottery. Nemadji [...]

Georgia is famed for its bountiful clay resources. It is not the state’s ubiquitous red clay that has been exploited commercially, but more localized clays such as kaolin and fuller’s earth. Most important in the story of Georgia folk pottery is stoneware clay, concentrated as alluvial deposits along middle Georgia’s fall line and scattered above [...]