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.)
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content: About the Object:
label: Description
content: Refined earthenware plate. Homer Laughlin's version of Leigh's deep, cream-colored "Umbertone" body. White clay body sprayed overall with a deep creamy-yellow glaze. Undecorated jiggered shape has flat round well, upturned marli, squared-off rim, and pinched corners; shape suggestive of Leigh's "Ultra."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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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: 1989.0255.09
label: catalog number
content: 1989.0255.09
label: accession number
content: 1989.0255
objectType: label: Object Name
content: plate
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: 24.74 cm; x 9 3/4 in
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3/4 in x 9 7/8 in; 1.905 cm x 25.0825 cm