(pronunciation: as spelled, rhymes with wiggle)

The Van Briggle Pottery has been producing Arts & Craft style pottery since 1900. Founded by Artus Van Briggle in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the products of this company include vases, bowls, book ends, candle holders, figures, paperweight, plates and plaques.

The tiles are available at local home improvement stores. The other products are available from the company or through secondary outlets (eBay, etc.)

See Van Briggle pottery.

My Opinion

If you are into Arts & Crafts styles, these products are for you.

Product Lines

bowls
candle holders
vases
mugs
animals
limited editions

Prices

from $20 to 2,000, the bowls, candle holders and animals are most reasonable.

Collector’s Society

Van Briggle Collector Society
call 719-633-7729

The Official Company Site

http://www.vanbriggle.com/

History

Artus Van Briggle worked for the Rookwood Pottery at the end of the Nineteenth Century, but his health forced him to move West. He established the pottery in Colorado Springs in 1900, and his early work sold out quickly. The Van Briggle Pottery, now including his wife Anne, won awards at the Paris Exposition in 1903-4, shortly before Artus died. Anne continued the work of the Van Briggle Pottery for another eight years, before the pottery was leased to Edwin DeForest Curtis, the first of several owners in the Twentieth Century. Through fire, flood and economic downturns, the company continued to make tiles and art pottery, as it does today.

Go to the Table of Contents to see all the topics covered so far.

Read more about porcelain collectibles in the Porcelain Collectibles Guide.

The Fulper Pottery was established in Flemington, New Jersey in 1805 by Samuel Hill. Initially formed to make utilitarian items like tiles, the Fulper family purchased the pottery in 1860 and expanded the products to include water, vinegar and pickling jars, butter churns, beer bottles and the Fulper Germ Proof Filter in its cobalt decorated stoneware jar that provided public drinking water in many places.

In 1909, Vasekraft art pottery was introduced using the heavy stoneware body, and vases, jardinieres, candle holders, book ends, cooking ware and mugs were added to the kitchen products already in the company’s product line. Further, Fulper made lamp bases and shades in many shapes and sizes, using finer glazes than the original products required.

Art Deco Items © by Artdecodude

Martin Stangl immigrated from Germany in 1910, and after a brief time at the Haeger Potteries, he returned to Fulper as general manager. He developed a series of rose glazes and further developed the Vasekraft line line of classical and oriental forms. Besides lamps and vases, the company made smoking paraphernalia like ash trays and cigarette boxes, and bowls. During World War I, the company made bisque dolls heads and one porcelain doll’s head, known as the Fulper dollhead.

Fulper also made dinnerware in a number of colors, the first of which was a solid green. The Fulper mark is a vertical lozenge shape with the word FULPER written vertically. Both stoneware, china and porcelain items are found in the Fulper catalogs, with the porcelain ones being hand decorated. Look for dresser items as well as vases and decorative items and kitchen stoneware.

Stangl bought the new production facilities in Trenton, New Jersey, in 1930 after a fire destroyed the old plant in Flemington. He changed the production to dinnerware with the Stangl name, then to bird figurines. The name of the Company was changed to the Stangl Pottery in 1955.

See Fulper pottery.

Go to the Table of Contents to see all the topics covered so far.

Read more about porcelain collectibles in the Porcelain Collectibles Guide.