Posts Tagged ‘Glazes’

Collecting Majolica

(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Majolica is a type of heavy earthenware, design-molded and decorated in vivid colors with either a lead or tin type of glaze. Victorian Majolica was originated by Mintons Ltd., who had been making tin-glazed pottery, which is opaque, white and shiny and painted in color. Wedgwood began to [...]

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Jugtown Pottery

(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Jugtown Pottery is a working pottery established in 1917, located in Moore County, North Carolina. It was founded by Jacques and Juliana Busbee, who were artists with a love of pottery. They began using the Jugtown stamp in 1922, which remains an identification of pieces made at Jugtown. [...]

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Flow Blue Ware

(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Flow blue ware was produced by many Staffordshire potters. Among the most familiar were Meigh, Podmore and Walker, Samuel Alcock, Ridgway, John Wedge Wood, and Davenport. It was popular from about 1825 through 1860, and again from 1880 through the turn of the century. The name [...]

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Jugtown Pottery

(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Jugtown Pottery was started in 1920 by Juliana and Jacques Busbee. It was established in Moore County, North Carolina. In 1923, Ben Owen, a young descendant of a Staffordshire potter, was hired. He became the master potter, while the Busbees experimented with perfecting glazes and supervising design [...]

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Teco Art Pottery

(All Auctions Shown are Ebay Results)Teco art pottery (an abbreviation of TErra COtta) was originally produced from 1899 through 1920 by the American Terra Cotta and Ceramics Company, located in Terra Cotta, Illinois. W. D. Gates, a lawyer by training, founded the company in order to capitalize on the need for architectural terra cotta used [...]

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