Dating van briggle

How to Collect Van Briggle Pottery

Van Briggle actual marking of years was basically nonexistent after Fire, flood, and several different owners all contributed to the myriad of bottom markings, leaving no consistency to identification of Van Briggle pottery. Thousands of dollars, as well as embarrassment, are the result of correct or incorrect recognition. I have seen unknowledgeable people buy "new", assuming it is old, and pay a hefty price for it. Sellers also make the same mistakes-. Hopefully, with a lot of "hands on" experience and some advice from this page, we can make decisions a little easier for buyers and sellers of Van Briggle. Nothing will make up for actually looking at and handling VB, we can talk all day, but seeing first hand is the best way to learn. Clay types, knowledge of glazes and markings are also needed.

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Van Briggle Pottery. Early Marks - Ephemera - Novelty items. Artus was an accomplished artist and potter from Cincinnati, Ohio who had previously worked at the Rookwood Pottery Company. He studied abroad in Paris during the years of By he had headed to Colorado Springs to open his own pottery studio. The Van Briggle Pottery Company officially opened for business in August with an initial kiln load of pieces ready for sale to the public. The company has produced pottery for over years.

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Van Briggle Pottery has the distinction of being one of the oldest companies still producing American art pottery to this day. The production of contemporary art pottery by Van Briggle as well as the fact that the company did not maintain great consistency in its bottom markings can make it difficult for novice Van Briggle collectors to determine accurate dates of production. With a basic knowledge of clay color and texture and bottom markings, approximate dating of Van Briggle Pottery can easily be determined. Since the majority of collectors are interested in dating early examples of Van Briggle this discussion will focus on dating examples from the s and earlier. Van Briggle Pottery from to Van Briggle Pottery produced between and early was typically clearly dated.

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Dating Van Briggle Pottery

To be fair, the artist who first created a design should be identified as the "artist" of a piece which subsequently gets cast thousands of times, and should have his initials incised on the bottom. But such is not the case. Only on wheel-thrown original pieces is the actual artist identified, and only on those pieces is the mark called the "artist mark.

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