Lotus ware vase
Lotus ware vase
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- Description
- Like many other pottery manufacturers in Ohio, Knowles, Taylor & Knowles began making Rockingham and yellow ware pottery. It wasn’t until nearly eight years later that they began producing ironstone tea sets, dinner services, toilet ware, cooking ware, accessory pieces, and pitchers with Britannia lids. In 1890, after rebuilding from a destructive fire, Knowles, Taylor & Knowles produced a very fine translucent bone china line they named Lotus Ware as an attempt to compete with the soft paste porcelain wares from Europe. Although in production for only a short amount of time, Lotus Ware offers an elaborate display of applied and hand painted decorations on a wide variety of shapes and objects. Many are decorated with delicate open-work lace designs, or “filigree”, colorful “jeweling,” and high relief leaves and flowers. The cost of producing Lotus Ware became too much for the company, however, and in 1898 they were forced to discontinue the line. This "Syrian Vase" shaped piece has applied floral work with a light green celadon glaze. The mold for this vase was used repeatedly with and without the applied decorations.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Vase
- date made
- 1891-c.1898
- maker
- Knowles, Taylor & Knowles
- place made
- United States: Ohio, East Liverpool
- Physical Description
- green (overall color)
- monochrome, green (overall surface decoration color name)
- ceramic, porcelain, hard-paste (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 7 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 11.43 cm
- overall: 7 1/2 in x 4 1/2 in; 19.05 cm x 11.43 cm
- ID Number
- CE.208193
- catalog number
- 208193
- accession number
- 34492
- Credit Line
- Gift of Dr. Walter Hough
- subject
- Art Pottery
- See more items in
- Cultural and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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