Lonhuda pottery produced by the Lonhuda Pottery Company of

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was a

pottery Pottery is the process and the products of forming vessels and other objects with clay and other raw materials, which are fired at high temperatures to give them a hard and durable form. The place where such wares are made by a ''potter'' is al ...

business founded in 1892 by William Long (1844–1918) with investors W.H. Hunter and Alfred Day. The pottery business utilized underglaze

faience Faience or faïence (; ) is the general English language term for fine tin-glazed pottery. The invention of a white Ceramic glaze, pottery glaze suitable for painted decoration, by the addition of an stannous oxide, oxide of tin to the Slip (c ...

. It is known for brown underglaze and slip-decoration. The firm closed in 1896. Marks vary and include the letters LPCO and the Lonhuda name above a feathered head. The ceramicist

Laura Anne Fry Laura Anne Fry (January 22, 1857 – July 30, 1943) was an American artist who specialized in wood carving, ceramics, and china painting. She worked at both the Rookwood Pottery Company and the Lonhuda pottery, Lonhuda Pottery Company as a cerami ...

worked for Lonhuda in 1892–93."Fry, Laura A. (1857-1943)"
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