Author: PECK, HERBERT
Title: The Book of Rookwood Pottery
Description: New York: Crown Publishers, 1968. Hardcover. B&W and Color; 11.0 X 8.7 X 1.0 inches; viii, 184 pages; Hard cover is blue with silver lettering on spine. Light rubbing, scuffing, sunning and bumping to boards. DJ has light sunning, scuffing, bumping and edge wear; in a mylar cover. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with 9 color photographs and many b/w pictures. '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...Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, daughter of wealthy Joseph Longworth, founded Rookwood Pottery in 1880 after being inspired by what she saw at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, including Japanese and French ceramics. The first Rookwood Pottery was located in a renovated school house on Eastern Avenue which had been purchased by Maria's father at a sheriff's sale in March 1880. Storer named it Rookwood, after her father's country estate near the city in Walnut Hills. The first ware came from the kiln on Thanksgiving Day of that year. Through years of experimentation with glazes and kiln temperatures, Rookwood pottery became a popular American art pottery, designed to be decorative as well as useful..Rookwood was noted for its employment of women. " Afterchapters.. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .

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