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Article: Edward Lycett and the Faience Manufacturing Company.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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The Faience Manufacturing Company (1881-1892) was an important, if short- lived, art pottery maker in New York City. It owed its artistic and commercial success to Edward Lycett (Fig. 1), an English china painter who became its art director in 1884, having successfully practiced his craft after immigrating to New York City in 1861.
The ceramics historian Edwin AtLee Barber (1851-1916) called Lycett "the pioneer of china painting in America" in 1895. [1] Barber's article is still the primary source of information about Lycett, for, despite his prominence in his day, very little recent research has been devoted to his life and work. Even less work has been done on ...