Vase

Clifton Art Pottery

1906 · Earthenware · The American Wing

The Clifton Art Pottery was founded in 1906 by William A. Long, a peripatetic ceramist from Ohio. He had worked in imitation of Rookwood Pottery’s Standard ware at the Lonhuda Pottery in Steubenville, Ohio, and then moved to Denver where he founded the short-lived Denver China and Pottery Company. Long moved to the East Coast, and he established his new business in Newark, New Jersey. At Clifton, he undertook to produce several different lines. This small vase, with its relief-molded decoration of fish swimming amongst watery plants is the most organic of the lines he produced there.

Artist

Clifton Art Pottery

Date

1906

Medium

Earthenware

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2020