The Collector's Encyclopedia of Weller Pottery First Edition

The Collector's Encyclopedia of Weller Pottery First Edition

Early in the nineteenth century, such men as Samuel Sullivan, Solomon Purdy, Joseph Rosier and Burley were producing stoneware and redware in quantities sufficient to fill the needs of both the local settlers of Muskingum County and those pressing westward. Rich veins of clay that often erupted through the topsoil of their fields coupled with a market that grew with the population turned farmers into potters during winter months. In crude sheds with the most primitive tools they turned and fired their wares. From this nucleus grew an industry that by 1840 consisted of 99 potteries in the state of Ohio, employing 199 men with Muskingum County accounting for 22 of these potteries and 66 workers.

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Table of Contents:

COVER

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

About The Authors

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

THE WELLER POTTERY COMP ANYITS INCEPTION, GROWTH AND DECLINE

1 IS ERECTED

THE LONHUDA POTTERY OF STEUBENVILLE

WELLER AND LONG BECAME PARTNERS

ART LINES INTRODUCED

SICARDO LINE CREATED

THE WELLER THEATRE

RHEAD'S TENURE WITH WELLER

OTHER ART LINES ADDED

MODEL POTTERY ERECTED AT ST. LOUIS

COMMERCIAL ARTWARE DEPARTMENT EMPHASIZED

3

THE HUDSON LINE INTRODUCED

METHODS OF MANUFACTURE

WELLER MOURNED, ADMINISTRATION CHANGES

INNOVATIONS OF THE THIRTIES

WELLER ARTISTS AND THEIR MONOGRAMS

TRADEMARKS OF THE WELLER POTTERY

COLOR PLATES

CATALOGUE REPRINTS

The Walter M. Hughes Scholarship Fund

INDEX TO COLOR PLATES BY LINES OF MANUFACTURE

INDEX