What is Crocus?
Crocus is a line of art pottery produced in 1904 by the Roseville Pottery Company in Zanesville, Ohio.
Who designed Crocus?
The Crocus line was designed by Frederick Rhead.
The Crocus vases produced by the Roseville Pottery Company have long been associated and confused with the later Aztec line. The Crocus line differs from Aztec in a few critical attributes. Crocus vases are brush-applied designs, each an art nouveau stylization of crocus flowers, whereas the Aztec line is decorated by a squeezebag technique, and generally have sparcer decorative accents.
Each vase was produced in a number of standard color themes, each covered in a high-gloss glaze. These are:
- Black with blue, green, and yellow decoration
- Brown with orange and yellow decoration
- Grey with white and yellow decoration
- Green with orange, blue, and yellow decoration
When was Crocus made?
The Crocus line was only produced in 1904.
There are no known catalog pages detailing the number of shapes or colors offered. Less than a dozen shapes are known. A few of the shapes were reused in the later Aztec line with a different decoration.
Below are known shapes and designs.
