With over 35 years of experience, owners Mike Witt and Jim Messineo offer examples of antique furniture by American makers such as Gustav Stickley, L&JG Stickley, Stickley Brothers, Limbert, and other quality companies. The gallery showcases period objects produced in New England, emphasizing the important role that this region played in the American Arts & Crafts Movement.JMW is nationally recognized for art pottery by Grueby, Marblehead, SEG/Paul Revere, Dedham, Hampshire, William Walley and Merrimac, as well as Newcomb, Rookwood, and the works of noted studio potters.
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Originally called the Chelsea Keramic Art Works (CKAW) (1872-1889), founded by James Robertson and his sons, a company focused on art pottery, and then the Chelsea Pottery US (1891-1895) where the famous Asian inspired crackle-ware was introduced. After the move in 1895 the company was re-named the Dedham Pottery (1895-1943).
Fulper Pottery was an established company before creating a line of artware. In 1860, two years after Samuel Hill passed, his family sold the pottery to Abraham Fulper, who had been working for Hill. Ten years after its incorporation in 1899, the Fulper Pottery Company started the Vasekraft art pottery line.
In 1904, the Marblehead Pottery was founded by Dr. Herbert Hall as part of a handicraft therapy program for convalescing patients at his hospital. Soon after it began, the pottery was separated from the Sanitarium and Arthur Baggs was made its director. He purchased the pottery from Hall in 1915. Baggs had previously worked under Charles Binns at the NY School of Clayworking and Ceramics at Alfred.
Merrimac Pottery was founded as The Merrimac Ceramic Company by Thomas S. Nickerson in 1897 in Newburyport, MA. The firm manufactured inexpensive flower containers. In 1900, Nickerson shifted his interest to decorative and glazed art pottery. Reflecting this emphasis, the firm's name was changed to The Merrimac Pottery Company in 1902.
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