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Rowe
Pottery Works was
established in 1975 in
Cambridge, Wisconsin.
In the late 1970s, as a
two-person pottery studio
and shop, sales were made
through art fairs and the
studio showroom. Jim
Rowe did the pottery
production on the potter's
wheel and the pots were
fired in the brick kiln out
behind the small workshop.
Interest in
collecting antique cobalt
blue decorated salt glaze
crocks and jugs was the
inspiration to change the
studio's pottery product
line in early 1980.
Rowe Pottery went from
making Jim's personal
pottery style of salt glaze
to museum quality
reproductions of Early
American crocks and jugs.
The value of early crockery
was skyrocketing and quality
adaptations of the early
designs were not available.
Rowe,
making salt glaze pottery in
his studio for years, knew
many of the secrets of this
type of production.
The American country home
decorating movement provided
an eager customer base to
grow the studio into a
viable business.
Today, Rowe Pottery Works
makes several styles of
pottery including the
ever-popular salt glaze
stoneware in addition to
hand-wrought ironware home
accessories which were added
to the company's product
offerings in the late 1980s.
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