Homer Laughlin Plate
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: Small, circular white-bodied semivitreous-ware plate used to test decal made for Homer Laughlin. Decal decoration consists of three large white Dogwood (?) flowers with green leaves.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1993.3114.03
label: catalog number
content: 1993.3114.03
label: nonaccession number
content: 1993.3114
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plate
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: semivitreous (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: decalcomania (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 6 1/4 in; x 15.875 cm
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 16 cm; x 6 5/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5/8 in x 6 5/16 in; 1.5875 cm x 16.0655 cm