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Old Time Pottery was founded in 1986 by Jack Peterson in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. It initially only sold pottery items but later expanded to include other home décor and furniture products. In April 2023, the home merchandise chain was acquired by Gabe's, an off-price retailer headquartered in Morgantown, West Virginia.
Glazed earthenware vase, Rookwood Pottery, ca. 1900. American art pottery (sometimes capitalized) refers to aesthetically distinctive hand-made ceramics in earthenware and stoneware from the period 1870-1950s. Ranging from tall vases to tiles, the work features original designs, simplified shapes, and experimental glazes and painting techniques.
Gabe's. Gabriel Brothers, Inc. (doing business as Gabe's) is an American off-price department store chain headquartered in Morgantown, West Virginia, United States. As of 2023, there are 131 Gabe’s stores and 38 Old Time Pottery stores across 20 states, with the support of six distribution centers serving the Mid-Atlantic, Midwest, and ...
Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where such wares are made by a potter is also called a pottery (plural potteries).
Ham Green Pottery. Early 12th to mid 13th centuries AD. Two types of decorated jugs: earlier yellow-splashed plain glaze and a later more green glaze. Somerset. [7] Humber ware. Late 13th to early 16th centuries AD. Hard-fired, iron-rich usually red-bodied wares.
Rookwood Pottery is an American ceramics company that was founded in 1880 and closed in 1967, before being revived in 2004. It was initially located in the Over-the-Rhine neighborhood in Cincinnati, Ohio, and has now returned there. In its heyday from about 1890 to the 1929 Crash, it was an important manufacturer, mostly of decorative American ...
Firstly, from the mid-15th century onwards, was maiolica, a type of pottery reaching Italy from Spain, Majorca [1] and beyond. This was made by a tin-glaze process [2] (dip, dry, paint, fire), resulting in an opaque white glazed surface decorated with brush-painting in metal oxide enamel colour (s).
Art pottery. Art pottery is a term for pottery with artistic aspirations, made in relatively small quantities, mostly between about 1870 and 1930. [1] Typically, sets of the usual tableware items are excluded from the term; instead the objects produced are mostly decorative vessels such as vases, jugs, bowls and the like which are sold singly.