Homer Laughlin Sugar Bowl
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 sugar bowl with lid in "Epicure" shape. Bowl is oval with two slightly flaring high sides and two straight high sides. Long straight sides have thick, downward sloping rim edge which tapers to plain, higher rim at flared sides. On interior beneath rim is a thin rest for the lid. Lid is a domed oval that is "pinched" to form an open handle at center top. Both are covered overall with shiny, subtly streaked and speckled charcoal grey glaze which seems to be sprayed on and which lightens at rim of bowl, edge of lid rest, and edge of handle, and bottom of lid.
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.Eab
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0255.37.Eab
label: accession number
content: 1989.0255
objectType: label: Object Name
content: sugar bowl and lid
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 spatial: 10.312 cm x 10.465 cm x 13.157 cm; 4 1/16 in x 4 1/8 in x 5 3/16 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 in x 5 1/8 in; 10.16 cm x 13.0175 cm