1904 Newcomb Pottery by Sabina E. Wells and Rare Roseville Pottery Futura Tank Vase Lead the Lee and Susan Stahl Collection of American Art Pottery Auction

A wealthy widow, Josephine Louise Newcomb, founded Newcomb College Pottery in 1886 in New Orleans. Newcomb College operated for almost 50 years. It was one of the most successful and admired American Arts and Crafts Movement potteries. Newcomb was the women’s branch of nearby men’s-only Tulane University. The pottery developed in stages and grew out of the omnipresent belief that crafts were an appropriate and acceptable career choice for women.

The Lee and Susan Stahl Collection of American Art Pottery, offered by Toomey & Co, will offer an early vase with anemones made in 1904 by Sabina E. Wells for Newcomb College Pottery. It is a glazed earthenware with bluish shades of anemones on the neck of the vase. 

From the Roseville Pottery, established in 1890, comes a rare Futura Tank vase (model 412-9). It is a crystalline-glazed earthenware manufactured in Ohio in 1928. The creator Roseville Pottery was founded by a Civil War veteran and businessman John Frederic Weaver of Roseville, Ohio. 

Local potters, businessmen and the secretary and general manager George Young helped the company take off. Roseville Pottery expanded by acquiring the factory of J.B. Owens Pottery, and absorbed Midland Pottery (formerly McCoy Pottery) in 1895 with over 100 employees.  The company’s decorative ceramic objects were highly in demand. Other notable lots in the sale include a Vellum-glazed plaque by Sara Sax for Rookwood Pottery, a glazed earthenware in its original frame, and a collection of seven Pomegranate vases by Moorcroft Pottery. The sale has over 200 works, including vases, bowls, tableware, landscapes, sculpture, and more. View The Lee and Susan Stahl Collection of American Art Pottery auction and register to bid by visiting Toomey & Co.