Homer Laughlin Plate
Object Details
- Description
- About Homer Laughlin China Company: The Homer Laughlin firm was founded in 1871 in Newell, West Virginia by the two brothers, Shakespeare and Homer Laughlin. A long-lived pottery, it survived two world wars and continued until 2020, when it was sold to Steelite, a British tableware manufacturer. Though Homer Laughlin China produced art pottery in its earlier days, it is best known for its Fiesta line, a brightly-colored Art Deco-styled set of tableware that was designed by the noted ceramicist, Frederick Hurten Rhead. Rhead was Homer Laughlin's art director from 1927 until his death in 1942. Fiesta ware is still produced by Fiesta Tableware Company, a division of Steelite. The New York Times called Fiesta “the most collected brand of china in the United States” (Alexander 2002). Homer Laughlin China Company was known for many dinnerware designs and also produced commemorative plates and art pottery vases.
- (Alexander, Kelly, 2002.“The Way We Live Now”. The New York Times, December 1.)
- About the Object:
- White-bodied molded earthenware plate. Round shape with wide marli and shallow well. Border decorated with narrow molded band. Covered overall with shiny clear glaze. Decals of three large gardenia-style flowers with bands of leaves in between encircle marli and outermost part of well. Decals are in greens, browns, white, yellows and greys. Rim decorated in gold. "Cotillion" design.; Attached paper label indicates projected Sears distribution: Cotillion[/]20 pc set - $7.50 (S.P.-Sears)[/]Basic 5 year plan[/]53 pc. set - $24.95 (S.P. Sears)[/]projection in dozen = 36,397.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Salem China Company
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- Date made
- 1952
- ID Number
- 1989.0255.24.D
- catalog number
- 1989.0255.24.D
- accession number
- 1989.0255
- maker
- Homer Laughlin China Co.
- Object Name
- plate
- Physical Description
- ceramic (overall material)
- earthenware (overall material)
- refined (overall material)
- molded (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- average spatial: 9 in; x 22.86 cm
- overall: 7/8 in x 9 in; 2.2225 cm x 22.86 cm
- place made
- United States: Ohio, East Liverpool
- See more items in
- Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
- Record ID
- nmah_1110284
