Lotus Ware Pitcher
date: label: date made
content: 1891-c.1897
notes: label: Description
content: Like many other pottery manufacturers in Ohio, Knowles, Taylor & Knowles began making Rockingham and yellow ware pottery. It wasn’t until nearly eight years later that they began producing ironstone tea sets, dinner services, toilet ware, cooking ware, accessory pieces, and pitchers with Britannia lids. In 1890, after rebuilding from a destructive fire, Knowles, Taylor & Knowles produced a very fine translucent bone china line they named Lotus Ware as an attempt to compete with the soft paste porcelain wares from Europe. Although in production for only a short amount of time, Lotus Ware offers an elaborate display of applied and hand painted decorations on a wide variety of shapes and objects. Many are decorated with delicate open-work lace designs, or “filigree”, colorful “jeweling,” and high relief leaves and flowers. The cost of producing Lotus Ware became too much for the company, however, and in 1898 they were forced to discontinue the line.
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: Heloise B. Power
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1985.0894.0001
label: accession number
content: 1985.0894
label: catalog number
content: 1985.0894.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Pitcher
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: polychrome (overall surface decoration color name)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic, bone china (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: gilt (overall production method/technique)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in; 23.495 cm x 16.51 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 7/16 in x 6 1/2 in; 23.97125 cm x 16.51 cm