Sugar bowl and creamer

Creator

Pauline Pottery, 1883-1909

Date

• 1888-1909

Summary

• Sugar bowl and cream pitcher, Pauline Pottery, Edgerton, 1888-1894 or 1902-1909. Molded earthenware sugar bowl and matching cream pitcher, both with scalloped rims. Hand-painted with ribbons and flowers in blue, pink, and green underglaze. Sugar bowl has lid with acorn-shaped finial and two molded handles.
• Underglazed Pauline Pottery crown, shape #135
• The Pauline Pottery was a commercial art pottery works established by Pauline Jacobus in Chicago in 1883. In 1888, Jacobus and her husband Oscar relocated the company to Edgerton, Wisconsin in order to gain access to the high-quality cream-colored earthenware clay beds found in the area. In Edgerton, Oscar managed the production of porous earthenware cups for electric batteries (the pottery's primary income generator) while Pauline worked with a staff of women decorators to create ornamental wares decorated with hand-painted underglaze. Faced with financial difficulties after the death of Oscar Jacobus, the pottery was forced to close in 1894. In 1902, Pauline Jacobus reopened the Pauline Pottery on a smaller scale, operating the company from her own home until her retirement in 1909.