Lotus Ware Vase
date: label: date made
content: 1893
label: date made
content: 1891-1898
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
topic: label: 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: Gift of Knowles, Taylor & Knowles Company
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CE.208194
label: catalog number
content: 208194
label: accession number
content: 34492
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Vase
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: green (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: polychrome (overall surface decoration color name)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic, porcelain, hard-paste (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 6 1/4 in; 24.765 cm x 15.875 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 9 3/4 in x 6 1/4 in x 5 1/16 in; 24.765 cm x 15.875 cm x 12.85875 cm