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Fulper Pottery Company

Fulper Pottery Company was an American ceramics manufacturer based in Flemington, New Jersey, that operated from the early nineteenth century until the mid-1930s. Founded around 1814 as the Hill Pottery, the company produced utilitarian stoneware for most of its history before introducing Vasekraft, its first art pottery line, in 1909. Under this and later lines, Fulper became an important producer within the American Arts and Crafts movement, known for an extensive range of molded forms finished in mirrored, flambé, matte, luster, and crystalline glazes. Fulper's art pottery developed under a group of designers and technicians: potter John Kunsman Jr., ceramic engineer J. Martin Stangl (who joined the firm in 1910), and chemist Cullen W. Parmelee were all involved in its forms and glaze chemistry. Early products included the "First Fifteen" cabinet vases and a line of pottery-based electric lamps, and the company received the Medal of Honor for its pottery at the 1915 Panama–Pacific International Exposition. Production peaked between 1917 and 1923, when Fulper's catalog offered 200 to 300 forms and its wares were sold through roughly 1,200 retail stores in the United States as well as international distributors. The art pottery line contracted through the 1920s as Fulper introduced other product brands, and J. Martin Stangl acquired the company in 1930. Fulper's art pottery line was discontinued in 1934, after which production continued under the Stangl Pottery name. Fulper pottery is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian Institution, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago, among other institutions. In 2018 the Metropolitan Museum of Art accessioned a group of Fulper works from the collection of Robert A. Ellison Jr.; the accompanying publication, American Art Pottery: The Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, devotes a chapter to the company's history and production.

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