William Bloor's East Liverpool Porcelain Works
Pitcher

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Pitcher
Datec. 1861–1862
Made inEast Liverpool, Ohio, United States
MediumPorcelain (parian ware)
Dimensions9 7/8 × 7 1/8 × 8 3/8 in. (25.1 × 18.1 × 21.3 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, museum purchase funded by the Ima Hogg Ceramic Circle
Object numberB.90.15
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Ceramics Study Room
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Like many American pottery proprietors, William Bloor was somewhat peripatetic, moving from New Jersey to Ohio and back again a number of times. His East Liverpool, Ohio, pottery was only in business for two years, yet he was able to produce quality glazed porcelain and Parian ware. Perhaps with an eye toward marketing, the tulip pattern, as shown here, is drawn on English prototypes, and Bloor’s diamond-shaped mark consciously emulates the English mark of registry. 

 

Related Examples: New Jersey State Museum, Trenton (Frelinghuysen 1989, no. 46).

 

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.



Provenance[David Lackey Antiques, Houston]; purchased by MFAH, 1990.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[no inscriptions]
Raised and incised on underside: IV / W / Bloor / 3 [Frelinghuysen 1989, p. 151]

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