Featured Spongeware Amphora-smeared mark

Can someone help me identify this spongeware vase/amphora (OK to use for non-Greek pottery?) with a smeared mark? I found it in my mother's house after her death. I suspect it could be passed from grandparent or granduncle, but do not know. My parents lived in Ohio (& many other places), so that is a possibility. Any info? Thank you. [/ATTACH]

 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/291220...how_sold_out_detail=1&ref=nla_listing_details

 

Good identification, @Roaring20s !

There is a book about Houghton Pottery of Dalton, Ohio, mentioned in this blog page.
https://finbotclub.blogspot.com/2010/08/jim-houdeshell-houghton-and-dalton.html

There are also several pages online that have brief histories, if you do a search. I am choosing not to link to any of the ones that I found, because they all have pop-ups asking me to disable the ad blocker on my computer. If you don't have an ad blocker, no problem!

 

asking me to disable the ad blocker on my computer.

that's just rude......

 

Beautiful piece Icon-Arts & Crafty w/ Greek form.

 

Ditto Komo- It's doin that to me too,more often and on more sites,it's like an insistent battering ram !

 

why dont they just ask you to drop your pants and bend over. Ad blockers are there for the exact reason of keeping “THEM” out in the first place, …geeezes

 

We are rarely purists, so please go ahead. I can see why you would call it an amphora. It is a beauty, whatever you call it.

 

If a site asks me that, I disable/ignore the site. No way am I going to compromise my online security.

 

Ditto 10000% AJ-If a really Big Hack hits you personally and it's game over,poss affecting the rest of your life.
With all the Consumer/Cyber Protections being cut in the States by the current administration-being paranoid's become a virtue-be beyond careful.

 

A really nice piece of American pottery and a factory that I haven't heard of before.

 

Thank you so much for your help! I have been searching the web for more info now that I have the pottery name. I have not been able to find firm dates for the backstamps. There seem to be several attributed to Houghton without any mark (dated by sellers 1901, 1899, 1920s), one with just a sans-serif "Houghton"(called 1920s) & another stamp with date 1928. Worthington says "This vase is marked E. Houghton & Co...which means it was made by Edwin Houghton around 1865 to 1890 when Edwin ran the company.” But it does not show a picture of the mark so I cannot compare placement & font to mine.

I tried worldcat.org & amazon for the books about Houghton Pottery. OOP. World Cat cannot give libraries. Two books by James Houdeshell were self-published 1983 & 2016. Another, 1930, put out by E. Houghton & Co. None are in the Library of Congress. (I thought they had every book published in the US--but I see that belief was NOT true.) If anyone has any of these books, please let me know if they give a date for the Houghton mark that matches my (smeared) backstamp.

I am also curious to know if the thick texture on the Etys vase cited by roaring20s & another now on ebay makes them rare, or whether smooth-surfaced Houghton spongeware is also prized.

I am learning, but I did not have a place to start before roaring20s and Figtree3 shared their expertise & research. Thank you again.