Warman's Rookwood Pottery: Identification and Price Guide

by Denise Rago, Jonathan Clancy

This guide teaches both novice and advanced collectors to identify, value, and affordably collect Rookwood Pottery, and provides one thousand brilliant color photographs, pricing and identifying details, and information on why there is such an interest in this pottery. Original. 10,000 first printing.

256 pages, Paperback

First published July 17, 2008

Reviews

[Brian Kovesci · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was helpful in describing the many movements after the Great Depression. The blue book painted the picture that they were struggling from the 1930's until they finally closed production in the 60's, but the artists were still experimenting and producing work in that timeframe.

I learned the vase I bought is a "standard glaze," of the kind around the turn of the century in which a realistic rendering of a flower was underpainted and a dramatic yellow-green / yellow / orange and black ombre glaze covers the whole piece. They're quite beautiful, but fell out of style as tastes changed from Victorian to Art Nouveau to Art Deco to Arts & Crafts.

This book also has examples from many of the identified periods and associated estimates. This'll help me in my hunt.