Cincinnati Pottery Club - Mary Louise McLaughlin
Mary Louise McLaughlin (1847-1939) published a popular book about china painting in 1877. In 1878, she became the first American to successfully produce ceramics with underglaze painted decoration. She founded Cincinnati Pottery Club in 1879, it was the first woman’s pottery club in America. In 1880 she produced a manual on decorating under the glaze. She also created the largest vase made utilizing the underglazing technique and called it the “Ali Baba” vase. In 1895, she patented a technique for inlay decoration in pottery. In 1898 she built a kiln in her back yard and became the first American to work in studio porcelain, the most difficult of all clays.
This vase, marked Losanti measures 2 1/4″ wide by 5″ tall and sold for $3,550 on ebay in April 2009.
September 18th, 2009 at 5:04 pm
Hello, I have recently consigned a piece of American Art Pottery to David Rago Auctions to be sold 9/26/09
The vase has A fabulous underglaze decoration of dafffodils signed and dated 77 and signed twice by John Bennett. . This would predate the Mclaughlin underglaze decoration pieces by one year. I am of the opinion that this piece is the pretty much the birth of the American Arts and Crafts period in stylized hand painted underglaze American Art Pottery.
Thank you, Kevin J. Kille
July 27th, 2011 at 2:41 am
Great post thanks!