Maria Longworth Storer
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Maria Longworth Nichols Storer was the founder of Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, a patron of fine art and the granddaughter of the wealthy Cincinnati businessman Nicholas Longwor
Maria Longworth Nichols Storer
Plate, painted and glazed earthenware, ca. 1880
Aladdin Vase, earthenware, 1880–83
Vase, copper and silver electroplated on tin and semiprecious stones, 1898
Mary Louise McLaughlin
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Mary Louise McLaughlin was an American ceramic painter and studio potter from Cincinnati, Ohio, and the main local competitor of Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, who founded Rookwood Pottery. Like Stor
Maria Longworth Storer
…with an appreciation for Japanese art and began incorporating some of those elements into her own work. In 1879, along with her fellow ceramics painter Mary Louise McLaughlin, Nichols commissioned the creation of an under-glaze and over-glaze kiln at a local pottery shop in Cincinnati. Nichols was also having pieces of pottery…
Portrait of Esther McLaughlin (the artist's niece), by Mary Louise McLaughlin, 1882, on porcelain
A soup bowl by McLaughlin, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art