부산대학교 도서관

(b 1851; d 1925). American potter. In 1872 he founded a pottery in Fultenham, OH. In 1888 he moved the pottery to nearby Zanesville, and in 1895 he bought Lonhuda Pottery (and the right to produce ‘Louwelsa’) and began to supplement his utilitarian wares (e.g. cookware, flowerpots and cuspidors) with art pottery; by 1905 he had become the world’s largest producer of hand-thrown pottery for the art market. Weller developed the ‘Eocean’ line (1898), which was a grey version of ‘Louwelsa’, and then produced simplified versions (‘Floretta’, 1904; ‘Etna’, 1906) in which decoration was partially mechanised by the use of embossed floral motifs in the moulds. From 1895 to 1904 the artistic director of Weller Pottery was Charles Babcock Upjohn (1866–1953), whose best-known product was the sgraffito ‘Dickensware II’ line (1900). Other designers included Frederick Hurten Rhead (who developed the the ‘Jap Birdimal’ and ‘Weller Rhead Faience’ lines) and Jacques Sicard (...