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 Longworth.
Maria Longworth Storer
Plate, painted and glazed earthenware, ca. 1880
Aladdin Vase, earthenware, 1880–83
Vase, copper and silver electroplated on tin and semiprecious stones, 1898
Rookwood Pottery is an American ceramics company that was founded in 1880 and closed in 1967, before being revived in 2004. It was initially located in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has now returned there. In its heyday from about 1890 to the 1929 Crash, it was an important manufacturer, mostly of decorative American art pottery made in several fashionable styles and types of pieces.
pottery buildings in 1904
Japonisme in 1884
Vase with bat and spiders, 1882
Jug by Abby Hyde Allen for Rookwood, 1883