Anna Pottery
{{Short description|American pottery company}}
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| image = Anna Pottery Pig Flask.jpg
| image_caption = Gray pottery flask, 1888
| type = Private
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| industry = Ceramics
| founded = 1859
| founders = Cornwall Kirkpatrick, and W. Wallace Kirkpatrick
| defunct = 1910
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| hq_location_city = Anna, Illinois
| hq_location_country = U.S.
| area_served = Midwest
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Anna Pottery was a pottery located in the city of Anna in Union County, Illinois,{{Cite web |date=2018-05-16 |title=Anna Pottery and Stoneware |url=https://wisconsinpottery.org/anna-pottery-stoneware/ |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=Wisconsin Pottery Association |language=en-US}} from 1859 to 1910. They sold stoneware and white clay ware.{{Cite web |title=Anna Pottery |url=http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/art/htmls/hh_anna_hist.html |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=www.museum.state.il.us}}
History
The brothers Cornwall Kirkpatrick and W. Wallace Kirkpatrick founded the pottery, after moving from Mound City and Washington, Pennsylvania.{{Cite journal |date=1980 |title=The Kirkpatricks' Pottery, Anna, Illinois |url=https://orb.binghamton.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1311&context=neha |journal=Northeast Historical Archeology}}
They exhibited at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial and 1893 World's Columbian Exposition.{{Cite web |date=2018-05-16 |title=Anna Pottery and Stoneware |url=https://wisconsinpottery.org/anna-pottery-stoneware/ |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=Wisconsin Pottery Association |language=en-US}}
Legacy
Their work is held in the collections of the Missouri History Museum, Illinois State Museum,{{Cite web |title=Anna Pottery |url=http://www.museum.state.il.us/muslink/art/htmls/hh_anna_hist.html# |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=www.museum.state.il.us}} Metropolitan Museum of Art,{{Cite web |title=Stoneware jar |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/669093 |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=www.metmuseum.org}} and Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library.{{Cite web |date=2021-09-16 |title=Winterthur Acquires Recently Discovered Anna Pottery Liberty Monument |url=https://www.winterthur.org/winterthur-acquires-recently-discovered-anna-pottery-liberty-monument/ |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library |language=en-US}}
In 2018, a "snake jug" sold at auction for $141,000.{{Cite web |date=2018-11-09 |title=Holy grail of folk ceramics made by 19th-century snake handler breaks auction record |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2018/11/09/holy-grail-of-folk-ceramics-made-by-19th-century-snake-handler-breaks-auction-record |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=The Art Newspaper - International art news and events}}
In 2021, Winterthur Museum acquired the “Liberty Monument” piece.{{Cite web |title=Museum Acquisition: Monument to a Massacre |url=https://www.themagazineantiques.com/article/museum-acquisition-monument-to-a-massacre/ |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=www.themagazineantiques.com|date=14 September 2021 }}{{Cite web |title=The Anna Pottery "Liberty Monument" |url=https://winterthur.oncell.com/en/the-anna-pottery-liberty-monument-312482.html |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=Winterthur Mobile Guide}}{{Cite journal |last1=Roeber |first1=Catharine Dann |last2=Van Horn |first2=Jennifer |last3=Square |first3=Jonathan Michael |date=2021-03-01 |title=Editor's Introduction |url=https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/717080 |journal=Winterthur Portfolio |volume=55 |issue=1 |pages=1–8 |doi=10.1086/717080 |s2cid=238477917 |issn=0084-0416|url-access=subscription }} It depicts the Colfax Massacre .{{Cite web |date=2021-08-17 |title=Meaning Is Everything: New Highs For American Pottery Push A Landmark Crocker Farm Sale - Antiques And The Arts WeeklyAntiques And The Arts Weekly |url=https://www.antiquesandthearts.com/meaning-is-everything-new-highs-for-american-pottery-push-a-landmark-crocker-farm-sale/ |access-date=2022-06-22 |language=en-US}}