Description: This beautiful piece was made in 1889 - 135 years old! It’s faded .. shows wear .. has a fairly large chip on the edge of the opening .. is missing the lid .. and has seen better days. Did I mention it’s 135 years old?! Please check all the photos for best depiction. This chamber pot was designed by Homer Laughlin to be not only useful but a pretty way to decorate the bedroom. Here are some write-ups about the collection from August - November, 1889 “Homer Laughlin has named his new toilet set the ‘Lennox’. …in stock in three decorations: No. 600, sky blue tint over body and hand painted peach blossoms, natural colors; No. 601, terra-cotta tinted body and illuminated carnation flowers; and No. 602, ivory or light lemon tint, with hand painted maiden fern trailed over the ware in natural colors. …The ‘Lennox’ has captivated every dealer who has eyed it, and over one hundred sets are already entered on the order books. …” — Crockery and Glass Journal, August 22, 1889 “…They are having a very big sale of ‘Lenox’ toilet ware in terra cotta, light blue, pink all over tint body, covered with gold lines and a delicate brown vine at rare intervals. …One of the special aims of Mr. Laughlin in toilet ware decoration is to select colors that will harmonize with the prevailing and most fashionable and pretty styles of house furnishing. If a bedroom is furnished in oak, Mr. Laughlin has decorations on his new ‘Lenox’ shape to suit. If it is in walnut or cherry, he has a delicate terra cotta that is very charming and harmonizes well. He aims to match the coverings in the furniture and the colors in the leading styles or carpets. It is this studied artistic effect in house decorations that makes a bed chamber attractive, and nothing looks more out of place than a set of toilet ware which is entirely off color, and harmonizes like a razor or an axe handle with everything else in the room. No matter how costly or good the furnishments may be, a non-harmonizing, bad cross-eyed, color-blind toilet set will spoil the whole room.” — Crockery and Glass Journal, October 3, 1889 “Homer Laughlin’s wonderful selling ‘Lennox’ toilet set, which is illustrated in the Crockery Journal, is the best holiday specialty Mr. Laughlin has ever been privileged to offer his customers. He has entirely new and novel decorations, which are rich and rare. The special feature of the new ‘Lennox’ decorations is their adaptability for harmonizing with the colors and tints used in the most artistic and handsomest chamber furnishment. ‘Lennox’ decoration 600, with light blue ground and peach blossoms, is just lovely in an oak or blue room. No. 601, a warm and delicate pink, fits in snugly in the latest carpets with combination grounds. The chaste and delicately sweet canary, No. 602 — more subdued than all the rest—never causes a blush in a chamber finished in old gold trimmings, clean, white lace lambrequins and bed coverings, when the ceiling and wall decorations are all light and modest, and the carpets selected to high the nakedness of the floors are alike creamy and chaste in color. Mr. Laughlin prides himself on the originality and beauty of these three designs, while raised clay ornamentation and embossed scrolls shown on the ware, and also in the illustration, are fully capable of speaking for themselves. The ‘Lennox’ pleases and sells, and for a holiday attraction Mr. Laughlin is pleased to recommend it. — Crockery and Glass Journal, November 14, 1889 Although not quite as resplendent as it once was, this will still make a gorgeous vase or pot for flowers or plants. And what a conversation piece! There aren’t many of these left so I will take the utmost care in wrapping and double boxing this lovely piece of history.
Price: 150 USD
Location: Saint Augustine, Florida
End Time: 2024-09-12T19:23:21.000Z
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Style: Antique
