Homer Laughlin Saucer
date: label: date made
content: 1946-05
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: "Republic" pattern circular saucer, featuring an everted, embossed rim of six, undulating ribbon-bordered scallops with double-arched, ribbed areas between. White body with ivory-white glaze; no decoration. Partial green backstamp includes trademark, date and plant location. Broken into two pieces.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: West Virginia, Newell
label: place used
content: United States: Massachusetts, Ipswich
topic: label: Subject
content: Food Culture
label: Subject
content: Beverages
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content: Home and Community Life: Domestic Life
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content: Food
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Alexander B. C. Mulholland
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: DL.252318.0059
label: catalog number
content: 252318.0059
label: accession number
content: 252318
objectType: label: Object Name
content: saucer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: china, vitreous (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: glaze (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall, largest: 7/8 in x 4 1/2 in x 5 7/8 in; 2.2225 cm x 11.43 cm x 14.9225 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall, smallest: 3/4 in x 2 in x 4 3/4 in; 1.905 cm x 5.08 cm x 12.065 cm