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SIGNED WILLIAM BROMLEY YELLOW WARE PITCHER. A handsome signed Cincinnati yellow ware paneled wat...

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SIGNED WILLIAM BROMLEY YELLOW WARE PITCHER.  A handsome signed Cincinnati yellow ware paneled wat...
SIGNED WILLIAM BROMLEY YELLOW WARE PITCHER. A handsome signed Cincinnati yellow ware paneled water pitcher with Rockingham-type mottled brown glaze on slip cast body with floral scrollwork decoration & female with harp below spout. Base has impressed Eagle mark with "Bromley & Co. Brighton Pottery Cin. Ohio." Pitcher is 9.25" high with applied C-scroll handle. Large edge chip on lip and several smaller chips at same. PLEASE NOTE: THIS LOT WILL BE SOLD ON EBAY LIVE AUCTIONS BETWEEN 1:00 -2:00 PM EDT ON MAY 25, 2002. REGISTER NOW TO BID LIVE ONLINE THE DAY OF THE SALE! (EST 600-800) He was born in 1810 at Stoke-Upon-Trent near the center of the Staffordshire pottery industry. Although there are no records of his employment in England, the quality of his American vessels suggests that he received formal training at a Staffordshire pottery. Upon his arrival in Cincinnati in the late 1840s, he established the Brighton Pottery. The Brighton neighborhood, near the edge of the downtown Cincinnati basin, boasted numerous potteries and workers with English nativity in the mid-nineteenth century. Under the direction of William Bromley, between 1849 and 1863, the pottery produced a range of decorative vessel types including hound-handled pitchers, embossed figural tea and coffee pots, tobacco jars, and elaborately-molded spittoons in plain yellow ware and Rockingham glaze. Many of his Brighton Pottery vessels contain his characteristic "eagle" hallmark on their bases. The eagle, and his often-included phrase "North America," strongly suggest that he was proud to be an American at a time when American potteries were deemed inferior to their English counterparts. Beginning in 1859, Bromley also operated the Covington Pottery, directly across the Ohio River in Covington, Kentucky. In operation till 1864, the Covington Pottery produced mostly sanitary and kitchen wares such as canning jars, bowls, chamber pots, and mugs in yellow ware and Rockingham glaze. There are no known marked Covington Pottery pieces. William Bromley died sometime prior to 1868.