Homer Laughlin Cup and Saucer
date: label: Date made
content: 1955
name: label: maker
content: Homer Laughlin China Co.
notes: label: Description
content: About Homer Laughlin China Company: The Homer Laughlin firm was founded in 1871 in Newell, West Virginia by the two brothers, Shakespeare and Homer Laughlin. A long-lived pottery, it survived two world wars and continued until 2020, when it was sold to Steelite, a British tableware manufacturer. Though Homer Laughlin China produced art pottery in its earlier days, it is best known for its Fiesta line, a brightly-colored Art Deco-styled set of tableware that was designed by the noted ceramicist, Frederick Hurten Rhead. Rhead was Homer Laughlin's art director from 1927 until his death in 1942. Fiesta ware is still produced by Fiesta Tableware Company, a division of Steelite. The New York Times called Fiesta “the most collected brand of china in the United States” (Alexander 2002). Homer Laughlin China Company was known for many dinnerware designs and also produced commemorative plates and art pottery vases.
label: Description
content: (Alexander, Kelly, 2002.“The Way We Live Now”. The New York Times, December 1.)
label: Description
content: About the Object:
label: Description
content: White-bodied molded earthenware cup and saucer in "Epicure" shape. Saucer is round coupe shape with flaring edge and thick, downward sloping rim edge. Shallow indentation in center forms cup rest. Covered overall with shiny, subtly streaked and speckled charcoal grey glaze which seems to be sprayed on. Glaze lightens to white at rim and edge of cup rest indentation. Cup is round with plain rim and very high slightly flared sides. Open, oval handle is attached along most of one of its long sides. Covered overall with shiny, lightly speckled pink glaze which seems to be sprayed on. Color lightens to almost white at handle edges.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: West Virginia, Newell
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Salem China Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1989.0255.37.Dab
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0255.37.Dab
label: accession number
content: 1989.0255
objectType: label: Object Name
content: cup and saucer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: earthenware (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: refined (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: molded (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spacial cup: 7.772 cm x 13.157 cm x 10.795 cm; 3 1/16 in x 5 3/16 in x 4 1/4 in
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 16.815 cm; x 6 5/8 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: cup: 3 1/8 in x 5 1/8 in; 7.9375 cm x 13.0175 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: saucer: 7/8 in x 6 5/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 16.8275 cm