What is Grueby Pottery?

William Grueby founded the Grueby Faience Company in Revere, Massachusetts in 1897. He produced pottery, terra cotta, enameled bricks, tiles, altars and other articles until 1920.

Grueby pottery vases and bowls are highly-sought antiques renowned for their organic arts and crafts shapes with distinctive matt glazes. Their enameled tiles became quickly associated with the mission style, and examples can be difficult to locate today. Grueby is often almost synonymous with their rich organic green mat glazes, and nearly every other contemporary pottery of the time hurried to bring their own mat green pottery to market on its success.

Major Awards

In 1900, Grueby received two gold and one silver medal at the Paris Exposition Universelle. In 1901 They were awarded a gold medal in the Buffalo Pan-American Exposition, and in 1902 they received one from the St. Petersburg World Fair in Russia. In 1904, Grueby personally won a gold medal in the St. Louis Universal Exposition for his design entries, and the company won the Grand Prize for Pottery and Tiles. Grueby is also known to have collected dozens of additional awards from nearly a decade of displays at regional competitions.