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
American art pottery refers to aesthetically distinctive hand-made ceramics in earthenware and stoneware from the period 1870-1950s. Ranging from tall vases to tiles, the work features original designs, simplified shapes, and experimental glazes and painting techniques. Stylistically, most of this work is affiliated with the modernizing Arts and Crafts (1880-1910), Art Nouveau (1890–1910), or Art Deco (1920s) movements, and also European art pottery.
Glazed earthenware vase, Rookwood Pottery, ca. 1900
Vase with raised decoration, Rookwood Pottery, 1885.
Ceramic plaque with semi-transparent 'vellum' glaze, decorated by Carl Schmidt, Rookwood Pottery, 1912.
Glazed earthenware vase modeled by Annie V. Lingley, Grueby Faience Company, ca. 1901.