#1712, Narcissus matte glaze (green/pink) 9.25" high, 3.50 base

#2115, blue vase with white, 7" high, 1.50" opening, 3" wide

#6548 KS (Kataro S.) soft grey/green, 3.50" high, 4.50 diameter with fish

#2321 blue vase with rooks, 7.75" high, 2.75" opening with lip, 3.75 diameter

1927, soft green glaze, 4" high bowl

#708 B, Nov 1893, Edith Regina
Felton, ERF, estimated 1899, rich red brown glaze with orange berries and leaves, beautiful design and color (poor photo)

#2412, ACM, 1926, pink 7" high vase, 2" opening, 4" width

#2203, high pink matte, 'dancing animals(?)

#2115, 6.50" high, pink matte, holly

#6086, blue carved fish bowl, 3" high, 6"diameter, six-sided

#932, faience brown/gold with red berries, 6" high, possibly 1902, signed HH

#922D, 7.50' high, blue scenic value, E.F. McDermott, lovely snow scene, XVII

#2174, (from #2117 thrown vase) pink matte glaze with rooks, 5.50" high

#494B, signed Katherine Hickman, dated 1899 in standard glaze, beautiful yellow roses, photo not in focus, very nice detail

Green tulip vase, 5" high, 1.5" opening 3.50"
width

#951C, 10.50" high, Mary Helen McDonald. Yellow/blue with pink flowers, beautiful glaze and work, 1927, XXVII

#2719, 1925 blue glaze vase with white flowers, 6.50 high, shape designed by John D. Wareham XXV, lovely white flowers.

#2122 SS, soft blue with raised floral, with pink at rim, 4.50" high

#2437 ACM (from 605) pink vase with geometric design, 5.50" high (shape # in photo is incorrect)

#2122 SS, soft blue with raised floral, with pink at rim, 4.50" high

#763C, 1899, Kataro Shirayamadani signed, vase in brown and gold standard glaze, 5.50" high from trial vase 9/1894 - gorgeous work

#1795, blue with rooks, 5-sided vase, 4.75" high, 3"wide

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brief history at end

Rookwood Pottery production began in 1880 and was named Rookwood, after the founder, Maria Longworth Nichols’ childhood home bringing her experience gained from her efforts first painting china in 1873. Although the pottery pieces were now being produced by a formal decorating department which was expanding and selling all it could produce, the pottery was not financially successful. A new partner and administrator, William Watts Taylor in 1883 started keeping records of popular pieces and instituted marketing changes. Laura A. Fry, who worked in the early Rookwood School for Pottery Decoration discovered the Rookwood Standard Glaze in 1883 which became quite successful. Rookwood continued to develop new types of wares, glazes and designs. The Japanese artist, Kataro Shirayamadani, joined the pottery’s decoration studio, and by the end of 1888 the firm was able to pay back the losses of the earlier years.

In 1889 the firm received a gold meal at an Exposition in Paris and a gold medal in Philadelphia and after this international recognition Taylor created the Rookwood Pottery Company. Production continued until 1966 after the pottery changed hands several times, but during it’s most active production period up to 1949, Rookwood Pottery contributed some of the most unique, technically accomplished, and beautiful offerings in design, execution and glaze and was considered one of the most accomplished art potteries.

Sourced from Kovels’American Art Pottery, Ralph and Terry Kovel, 1993