128 GEOLOGY OF OHIO. 



M. Patterson East Liverpool. 



A. T. Boyce 



TheBonnot Co • Canton. 



Griffith & Wedge Zanesville, O. 



The growth of the industry has been enormous in the last ten years. 



The position of Ohio as a pottery producing state cannot be given 

 from official data. An intelligent estimate made in East Liverpool 

 places the White Pottery production of the country about as follows : 



Ohio 50 P er "it- 

 New Jersey •' 33 



Scattering ; 17 



Total 100 



So that, according to this estimate Ohio and New Jersey have 

 changed places in the last ten years. 



East Liverpool is now the largest pottery producing center of the 

 United States and aside from Staffordshire, England, ranks among the 

 first of the world. 



(§-.) Ornamentai, Pottery. 



There is only one pottery in Ohio devoted entirely to the production 

 of ornamental wares ; that is the now famous Rookwood Pottery of Cin- 

 cinnati. The wares of this institution have met with constantly 

 increasing favor in the last few years and the business which was 

 organized and begun at a heavy expense and rewarded its patrons with 

 a loss at each annual meeting, has at last been put on a paying financial 

 basis and is expanding. The struggles of this infant industry to obtain a 

 foothold make an interesting story. Its success now safely attained is all 

 the more flattering. 



The character of the wares of this pottery are unlike any other. 

 They have earned a name -and place by .themselves, in the records of 

 ornamental pottery. 



The body clays used in the production are largely from Ohio and 

 adjoining territory. The only object aimed at in this stage is the pro- 

 duction of a good, strong body. Its color, for a large part of their wares 

 at least, is immaterial. The preparation of the body material offers no 

 new or unusual points. 



The decoration is of the highest order; competent and trained artists 

 being employed at liberal rates of compensation. 



The characteristic of the work is that it is almost all underglaze 

 decoration. The figures are painted in enamel paints on the bisque ware 

 and the glaze is put on over all. The problems which arises are of the 

 most complex nature — the expansion and contraction of the glaze must be 

 not only suited to the body, but the effect of these patches of enamel 



