(28) Roseville Pottery Pieces. Includes 2 large beige platters, 3 smaller beige platters, 1 smaller orange platter, 5 small round orange plates, 3 small round grey plates, 11 orange soup bowls, 1 ovoid orange lid, 1 round black lid, and a wooden sign that reads "Roseville Pottery." Marked on bottoms with "Raymor" and Roseville labels. Paper labels on many with information and prior pricing. 

Condition: Some chips. Commensurate with use and age. 

Largest Size (Beige Platters): 10 x 8 1/2 in. 

The Roseville Pottery Company was founded by J.F. Weaver in Roseville, Ohio in 1890. It was incorporated in 1892 with George Young, a former Roseville salesman, as secretary and general manager. Under the direction of Young the Roseville company had great success producing stoneware flower pots and other practical household items. In 1895 the company expanded by purchasing Midland Pottery, and in 1898 they purchased the Clark Stoneware Company in Zanesville, deciding to move the headquarters of the company there. In 1900 Young hired Ross C. Purdy to create the company’s first art pottery line, named Rozane (a contraction of “Roseville” and “Zanesville”). The Rozane line was designed to compete against nearby Rookwood Pottery’s Standard Glaze, Owens Pottery’s Utopian forms, and Weller Pottery’s Louwelsa art lines. Within short order their Arts and Crafts-inspired designs proved to be more popular than simple household pieces, and they were known as a key member of “The Big Three” along with J.B. Owens and Weller. By 1901 the company owned and operated four plants and employed 325 people. Frederick Hurten Rhead left Weller in the hands of his brother Harry to become the art director of Roseville between 1904 and 1909, and is associated with some of their most sought after lines, including Juvenile, Della Robbia, Donatello, Mostique, and Pauleo. Frank Ferrell became the art director for Roseville in 1917, creating extremely popular designs like Blackberry, Sunflower, and Pinecone. The interim war years, Depression era, and World War II took their toll on the company and the local economy, and the Roseville Pottery Company produced its final designs in 1953. The following year their facilities were bought by the Mosaic Tile Company, who repurposed their designs for many years. Since then Roseville pottery has seen two distinct revivals: one with baby boomers in the 1970s, and again in the late 1990s and early 2000s during the Mission Style revival. In 2017 a company named The Kings Fortune of Fishers in Indiana was granted trademarks by the U.S. Patent Office for both Roseville and Roseville Pottery. Marina Bosetti, a ceramic artist in Raleigh, North Carolina, was contracted to produce limited-edition tiles in the Art Nouveau style for the company. Today, many Roseville styles remain relatively common while rarer pieces can fetch hundreds or even thousands of dollars.

Some chips. Commensurate with use and age.