For Sale is a lovely piece of Art Pottery made by The Marblehead Pottery Company of Marblehead, Mass. The piece of Art Pottery is a Vase that is a hard to find shape and it is done in the most Popular "Marblehead" Blue Glaze. The Vase has some size to it as it stands 6" tall and is 5 1/2" in diameter at the bulbous bottom and is heavy and solid.

The Vase displays a tapered swollen form. The vase at the top resembles a volcano opening and it tapers out an angle and then back in at the very bottom. A very pleasing swollen form that is not that commonly found. The Vase has that rich matte speckled blue glaze that made Marblehead Pottery famous. The shape of the Vase is as unique as the Glaze and is synonymous with the style of Marblehead Pottery. The inside of the vase display a truly beautiful Robins Egg Semi Gloss Blue Interior. You can see the gooves on the inside to show this is a hand thrown piece as opposed to a mold made one.

The Vase is considered to be in Excellent Condition as there are no cracks, chips, nicks or dings.The Vase is signed on the bottom with Marblehead's Impressed Ship Logo along with the Capital Letters "M" and "P" for Marblehead Pottery. This would look just wonderful in that Stickley, Mission Style Arts and Crafts Bookcase. This piece was made Circa 1904-1915.

Marblehead Pottery was established in 1904 by Dr. Herbert J. Hall as a Studio Art Pottery in Marblehead, Massachusetts using the art and technique of ceramics manufacturing and decorating as a rehabilitation and therapeutic aid to local sanitarium patients at Hall's Devereux Mansion Sanitarium. Marblehead Pottery stopped producing Art Pottery in 1936. Marblehead Pottery was a small Pottery Company never employing more than 6 workers. Their Pottery is considered somewhat scare as compared to their Contemporaries of the day.

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