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Weller Hudson Timberlake Vase SUPER DESIGN & COLORS!
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is a beautifully hand painted floral design by Weller Hudson featuring a stunning, heavily textured iris design in unusual and lovely colors. The vase measures 8 and 3/8" in height and 3 and 1/8" in diameter and is in excellent condition. The artist surname Timberlake is on the vase near the bottom. I am unsuare as to whether this was Sarah or Mae Timberlake, both of whom were artists for Weller Hudson. The vase is perfectly cylindrical (not as it appears in the photo w the vase is laying on its side, w I attempt to show some of the heavily applied glaze that gives the design the texture and richness that makes it especially lovely. The leaves of the iris continue around the vase to the back. The vase is perfect - no chips, with the only possible detraction being 2 miniscule hairline cracks which are shown in one of the photos and extend a short length from top. I have received two quesitons regarding the cracks and they do appear on the exterior of the vase, but are not as pronounced and are shorter in length. The vase is still water tight. As with all Weller pieces of this vintage, t is crazing in the glaze. This vase has been in my family for many decades. I am culling our possessions and collections in preparation for a retirement move. This vase is truly one of the most beautiful Timberlake designs that I have seen, and my family has had an extensive collection of Weller over the years. Please feel free to email me for additional photos. A bit of background on Weller art pottery: Weller American art pottery from Zanesville , Ohio : Samuel A. Weller was born in 1851, the seventh child of an Ohio farming family. He started a one-man pottery in a log cabin in Fultenham, Ohio in 1872, initially handling all aspects of production from digging and mixing the clay, throwing the pots, firing them, and transporting them to nearby Zanesville w he sold them. (See All About Weller, A History and Collector's Guide to Weller Pottery, by Ann Gilbert McDonald, 1989.) Weller's early utilitarian ware included flower pots, crocks, cookware, and cuspidors. In 1888 he moved production from Fultenham to Zanesville , building his first factory t two years later. Weller began to make art pottery in 1895. By 1905, his plant employed over 500 people and shipped an astonishing three railroad cars of pottery per day! In 10 years, Weller had become the largest maker of art pottery in the world. Weller's initial success was due to his partnership with William Long, who had formed the Lonhuda Pottery with investors W.H.Hunter and Alfred Day in 1890. ("Lonhuda" combines the first letters of the partners' last names.) In 1892, Laura A. Fry, an important and innovative American potter who had pioneered the use of the atomizer at Rookwood, joined Lonhuda w she and Long developed Lonhuda Ware, a line featuring hand-decorated florals and portraits against a shaded brownish or greenish backgound. The ware was the first successful imitation of Rookwood's pioneering Standard Ware. Sam Weller noticed Lonhuda Ware at the 1893 Chicago Exposition, and acquired an interest in Long's company. Long relocated to Weller's plant, and began to produce Lonhuda Faience t in 1895. A year later, having learned the Lonhuda process, Weller reduced Long's role, possibly forcing him out of the company. Weller renamed the ware Louwelsa after his new-born daughter Louise and himself. Louwelsa was Weller's first art pottery line, and the foundation of his pottery empire. The mass production of Louwelsa in Zanesville established art pottery as an important commercial venture in the United States . (See Art Pottery of the Midwest, by Marion John Nelson, 1988.) I will carefully pack this vase, but I highly recommend insurance on this vase as I cannot be responsible for parcels lost or maimed by the postal service. I will entertain reasonable offers. Thank you for looking and good luck! I have a photo of the rear exterior of th...
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