(5) Art Pottery Pieces. Includes a Rousseau vase signed on underside, a china plate with Viking ships around the edge, a large stoneware vase shaped like a crock, and two other stylish vases.
Condition: Commensurate with age.
Largest Size: 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 x 9 in.
Art pottery is a term for pottery with artistic aspirations, made in relatively small quantities, mostly between about 1870 and 1930. Typically, sets of the usual tableware items are excluded from the term, and instead the objects produced are mostly decorative vessels such as vases, jugs, and bowls which are sold singly. The term originated in the late 19th Century, and is usually used only for pottery produced from that period onwards. It tends to be used for ceramics produced in factory conditions, but in relatively small quantities, using skilled workers, with at the least close supervision by a designer or some sort of artistic director. Studio pottery is a step up, supposed to be produced in even smaller quantities, with the hands-on participation of an artist-potter, who often performs all or most of the production stages, but the use of both terms can be elastic. Ceramic art is often a much wider term, covering all pottery that comes within the scope of art history, but the specific adjacent term “ceramic artist” is often used for hands-on artist potters in studio pottery. “Art” pottery implies both a progressive design style and a closer relationship between the design of a piece and its production process. Art pottery was part of the Arts and Crafts movement, and a reaction to the technically superb but over-ornamented wares made by the large European factories, especially in porcelain. Later art pottery represented the ceramic arm of the Aesthetic Movement and Art Nouveau, as well as the early stages of Art Deco. Many of the wares are earthenware or stoneware, and there is often an interest in East Asian design aesthetics. There is often great interest in ceramic glaze effects, including lustreware, and relatively less in painted decoration and still less in transfer printing. The most significant countries that first produced art pottery were Britain and France, soon followed by the United States. The term is not often used outside the Western world, except in “folk art pottery,” sometimes applied to village-based mingei traditions in Japanese pottery and specific tribal variations throughout Africa impacted by colonialism and urban contact.
Commensurate with age.
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