Homer Laughlin Vase
date: label: date made
content: 1906-03-13
label: date made
content: 1905-12
notes: label: Description
content: About Homer Laughlin China Company:
label: Description
content: 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: Tall and thin decorative vase with small diameter foot that gets wider at the top. Small opening for a mouth. The top third of the vase is cobalt blue. Bottom two-thirds is a golden yellow that is gradiated from light to dark towards the foot of the vase. A thin gilded line separates the blue from the yellow. On the front of the vase only is a painted flower that overlaps both the blue and gold colors.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, East Liverpool
topic: label: web subject
content: Art Pottery
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Homer Laughlin China Co.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CE.237945
label: catalog number
content: 237945
label: accession number
content: 45696
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vase
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: gold; blue (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: polychrome (overall surface decoration color name)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/2 in x 4 5/16 in; 31.75 cm x 10.922 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 1/8 in x 4 1/4 in; 30.7975 cm x 10.795 cm