Fulper Pottery Marks

Fulper Pottery (1814- 1930). Fulper Pottery was an established company before creating a line of artware. In 1860, two years after Samuel Hill passed, his family sold the pottery to Abraham Fulper, who had been working for Hill. Ten years after its incorporation in 1899, the Fulper Pottery Company started the Vasekraft art pottery line. Most importantly, this line included ceramic shade lamps with leaded glass insets. The clay was predominantly heavy slip-cast stoneware. Fulper is known as a form and glaze as decoration pottery. This included crystalline, flambe, drip and matte glazes. While primarily recognized for pottery, their work also included bookends, humidors, candleholders, clock cases, desk sets, lamps, coffee sets, cooking ware, mugs, decanters, pitchers and tiles. Similar to Paul Revere Pottery, Fulper also made dolls during WWI. Business continued after William H. Fulper died. Only one year after a new plant was opened in Trenton, New Jersey, the main plant in Flemington burned down. Fulper used a variety of impressed and ink-stamp marks, including a horizontal imprinted mark found on later pieces. From 1935, production shifted away from artware to dinnerware, produced under the name Stangl. In late 1955 the company name was changed to the Stangl Pottery Company.

*Art Pottery of the United States by Paul Evans 1974