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Elizabeth Barrett

Although best known for ceramics in the Arts & Crafts or Art Nouveau styles, the Rookwood Pottery in Cincinnati continued to produce superb wares through the 1930s and 1940s, some in a very high Art Deco style. This pair of lamps -- cast with bottom holes for lamp wiring, and complete with bronze fittings also made by Rookwood -- are hand decorated, probably by one of the studio's top designers. Each lamp is dated 1947, and is impressed with style number 6982. (Each is also marked with the number 2886, written by hand.)