FULPER ART POTTERY ARTS AND CRAFTS 2 HANDLED VASE,1920s

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Up for auction is a Fulper Pottery Company of Flemington, New Jersey (Hill-Fulper-Stangl Pottery, All Total, Circa 1805, 1814 to 1978, (Sources Vary), American Art Pottery, Arts and Crafts Style, Handled Vase with a Light Turquoise-Green, Cat's Eye-Like Drip Glaze in Mint Condition, circa 1920 to 1928. The dating is based on the ink-stamped vertical mark known as the "race track" mark. The Fulper Pottery Company has quite the history and the pottery actually began as the Hill Pottery Company in circa 1805 to 1814. For nearly a decade the products were utilitarian in nature begining early on with redware and then into stoneware. The original founder Samuel Hill operated the pottery untill 1860 when Abraham (Abram) Fulper became the owner. Fulper worked for Hill and may have even rented the pottery for a time before 1860, but he did become sole owner. In 1881 Abram passed away and his sons ran the pottery under the names of "G.W. Fulper and Brothers Pottery" and "Fulper Brothers Pottery". Around 1910 the decision to make art pottery was made and Martin Stangl was hired to direct the Artware Department. In the 1910's Stangl left Fulper and went to the Haeger Pottery Company of Dundee, Illinois and started their art pottery department. He returned to Fulper at the end of, or near the end of World War 1 and was given the position of full management over the pottery. In 1926 Stangl was appointed as company president by Fulper and by 1929 Martin Stangl purchased the Fulper Pottery and it was renamed Stangl Pottery until its closing and sale to Pfaltzgraff Pottery Company in 1978. This totally awsome and beautiful piece was made in an arts and crafts style. I say, "in the style of" because of the many opinions out t as to what constitutes an Arts and Crafts Period piece of pottery. You do not not have to agree with me, but one of the best comments I ever read came from Jack Chipman, author of 4 books on California pottery and potteries. He states and I quote, "I confess to having a problem with the term "art pottery". Are all other kinds of pottery not to be considered art?", unquote. I agree and I have a similar problem with the defining of the Arts and Crafts Era Art Pottery. One of the best examples of Arts and Crafts Era pottery has to be the Grueby Pottery Company. The vessels were all hand turned (thrown) by individual potters. Then the artists decorated them by hand. If the design was incised into the clay it was done by hand or if the piece had a raised flower and leaf, this was applied to the piece by hand. When the glazes were applied and you wanted the flower to be yellow, the yellow glaze would be brushed on 1st by hand. Every aspect of the piece was done by hand. A true arts and crafts piece of pottery was made. Grueby did not make molds from a master model that was designed in the same manner I just described. Their wares were not made from the original and then recast over and over again. However, the method of designing a master model of a piece of pottery for a master mold was the norm for most of the other potteries. During those late 1800's and early 1900's years when Grueby was doing this, their competitors were seeing the success they had with their designs and they began to copy them. I do not want to get this listing kicked off, so I will give you these examples. One example is a pottery who's name rhymes with "cook wood" and another example was a pottery from New Hampshire and if you don't use the word "New" you have their name and still. Of course, t were other potteries that used this method also. However, these 2 are specifically mentioned along with photographs of the competition's wares in a book about Grueby Pottery. They copied the Grueby designs, but a designer made a master model 1st and then molds were made from the master. Many of these molded styles, shapes and designs were manufactured for years by these potteries and other potteries also did this. When Grueby was making their wares that are definately defined as"Arts and Crafts Pottery, so were the other potteries and their wares... read more

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