Dallas Pottery Pitcher
date: label: date made
content: ca 1880
name: label: maker
content: Dallas, Frederick
notes: label: Description
content: About the Arts and Crafts Movement:
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content: Beginning in England in the early 1880s, the Arts and Crafts movement spread across the United States and Europe by the late 1880s. It celebrated the importance of beauty in everyday objects and urged a reconnection to nearby nature. The movement resisted the way industrial mass production undermined artisan crafts and was inspired by the ideas of artisan William Morris and writer John Ruskin. Valuing hand-made objects using traditional materials, it was known for a color palette of earth tones. Its artistic principles replaced realistic, colorful, and three-dimensional designs with more abstract and simplified forms using subdued tones. Stylized plant forms and matte glazes echoed a shift to quiet restraint in household décor. The Arts and Crafts movement also embraced social ideals, including respect for skilled hand labor and concern for the quality of producers’ lives. The movement struggled with the tension between the cost of beautiful crafts and the limited number of households able to afford them. Some potters relied on practical products such as drain tiles to boost income or supported themselves with teaching or publications. Arts and Crafts influence extended to other endeavors, including furniture, such as Stickley’s Mission Style, and architecture, such as the Arts and Crafts bungalow, built widely across the United States. American Arts and Crafts pottery flourished between 1880 and the first World War, though several potteries continued in successful operation into the later 20^th^ century.
label: Description
content: About Dallas Pottery:
label: Description
content: Dallas Pottery was established as the Hamilton Road Pottery in Cincinnati in 1856 and was bought by Frederick Dallas in 1865. By 1879, two new kilns were built and artware production was expanded. One kiln was supported by Mary Louise McLaughlin for her underglaze painting and the work of the Cincinnati Pottery Club, who rented a studio from Dallas Pottery. Another studio was rented by Maria Longworth Nichols (founder of Rookwood Pottery), who financed the other kiln for overglaze firings. The Dallas Pottery produced its own Cincinnati faience wares and fired painted pottery from artists as far away as Chicago and Washington (Evans 1987:77). When the founder died in 1881, key staff as well as the Pottery Club relocated to the Rookwood firm, and Dallas Pottery closed the following year.
label: Description
content: (Evans, Paul, 1987. Art Pottery of the United States. New York: Feingold and Lewis Publishing Corp.)
label: Description
content: About the Object:
label: Description
content: White, parian ware pitcher with a hinged pewter top and a twig handle. Pear-shaped and covered with basket-weave relief pattern, with leaf desing following the vertical mold lines in front and rear.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
topic: label: Subject
content: Art Pottery
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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: CE.75.40
label: catalog number
content: 75.40
label: accession number
content: 315466
objectType: label: Object Name
content: pitcher
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: monochrome, white (overall surface decoration color name)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: porcelain (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 in; 15.24 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 1/8 in x 5 in; 15.5575 cm x 12.7 cm