Rookwood bowls / the Rookwood Pottery Company
A 1900 trade catalogue issued by the Rookwood Pottery Company of Cincinnati, Ohio, presenting its bowls and vessels to buyers and retailers of art pottery. The first picture shows a dark bronze-glazed bowl on a footed stand holding a cluster of broad leaves and a small pale figure, while the second shows a shallow bowl flanked by two handled urns, filled with sprays of flowering stems. A designer might take from them the sculptural bowl forms, the matte dark glazes, and the arrangement of foliage and blossom against a plain ground.
