Newcomb Pottery

Group of Newcomb College Pottery pieces showing a variety of forms

Newcomb Pottery, also called Newcomb College Pottery, was a brand of American Arts & Crafts pottery produced from 1895 to 1940.[1] The company grew out of the pottery program at H. Sophie Newcomb Memorial College, the women's college now associated with Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Pottery was a contemporary of Rookwood Pottery, the Saturday Evening Girls, North Dakota pottery, Teco and Grueby.

Vase with design of pine trees, Henrietta Davidson Bailey decorator, Joseph Meyer potter, 1912
  1. ^ Poesch, Jessie J. & Spanola, Sally M. (1984). Newcomb Pottery: An Enterprise for Southern Women, 1895-1940.