The mark and kim moyer collection
This exhibition closed in 2022
American art pottery flourished in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The Mark and Kim Moyer Collection features works manufactured by several of this state’s most important pottery companies including Weller, Roseville, and the J.B. Owens Potteries located in Zanesville and the Rookwood Pottery Company located in Cincinnati.
On view are highlights from the Moyer’s large collection and feature two of the most prominent pottery lines produced during the turn of the last century. The first is the standard, brown-glazed wares that were created throughout Ohio and feature skillfully hand-painted slip decorations applied to a dark brown background and finished with a clear, high-gloss glaze. The second is the Dickensware II line manufactured exclusively by Weller Pottery Company. Named after the English author Charles Dickens, these wares feature hand-incised decorations of monks, cavaliers, maidens, and characters from Dickens’s novels applied to a light-colored background and finished with either a clear high-gloss or a matte glaze. Both the standard brown glaze and Dickensware II lines were admired by collectors throughout the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
Image Above: Weller Pottery Company, Dickensware II Vase Featuring a Hand-Incised Image of a Man with a Pipe, circa 1900, earthenware. The Mark and Kim Moyer Collection. IR06/16/2020.12
