Pisgah Forest Pottery (NC, 1921-1962), Cameo Decorated Vase and Teapot

Arden, North Carolina, vitreous semi-porcelain stoneware with applied glazes, both with pink glazed interiors, the first a tall vase decorated in white high relief cameo scenes of musicians and dancing couple, dark green glazed upper above a mottled blue green glazed waist, marked "1953 / Cameo /. Stephen / Long Pine / Arden N.C." to the underside (8 x 5 x 5 in.); the second a blue glazed tea pot with cover, having white slip cameo decorations of a covered wagon in a continuous landscape scene, 1947 "potter at the wheel" mark (5 x 9 x 6 in.).

The "Long Pine" marks refer to the special stamp that Walter used around 1953 denoting they were made in his separate workshop where he concentrated on his slip cameo designs. Apparently Stephen continued to use this date until his death in 1961.

Literature: Rodney Leftwich Pisgah Forest and Noncannah: the Potteries of Walter B, Stephen, pg. 183.

Good estate condition; a few minor underglaze firing anomalies to the dancing figures as made.

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