RARE Omar Khayyam Oscar Louis Bachelder Pottery Vase

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Up for auction is this extremely rare c1920s North Carolina Pottery vase by Oscar Lewis Bachelder. Has 2 flea bites -- one on rim and one on base. Marked with his OLB cypher on bottom.
Mr. Bachelder operated Omar Khayyam pottery in Candler, NC from the mid 1910s until his death in 1935. Bachelder received many awards during his lifetime and was invited to show his work in a number of museum exhibits and diverse expositions.
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Oscar Lewis Bachelder (1852-1935) had worked as an itinerant potter for nearly 40 years before settling near Candler in 1911. He was almost 60 years old when he established the Omar Khayyam Pottery, naming it for a Persian poet-philosopher to give his pottery a distinct artistic flare. Bachelder produced decorative works that came to be known as “art pottery,” meaning that the work departed from the standard brown stoneware jug that was so commonly produced at the time. Bachelder produced vases and jars with simple shapes and embellished them with a variety of glazed surfaces. He used a glossy black Albany slip, a deep cobalt blue, and a variety of experimental iridescent glazes.
In 1919 he won the Logan Prize awarded by the Chicago Art Institute where his pottery was displayed. He was quoted to say, “I wanted to create beauty unmarred by the hand of commerce.” Each has merit and individuality. No replicas. O. L. Bachelder, artist.”
When Bachelder died in 1935, the pottery changed hands and, for several years, was operated as Throckmorton Pottery.