Bottom Marks

There is no consistency to Roseville bottom marks. Even within a single popular pattern like Pine Cone, the marks vary.

Several shape numbering systems were implemented during the company’s 64-year history, with some denoting a vessel style and some applied to separate lines. Though many pieces are unmarked, from 1900 until the late teens or early 1920s, Roseville used a variety of marks including “RPCo,” “Roseville Pottery Company,” and the word “Rozane,” the last often with a line name, i.e., “Egypto.”

The underglaze ink script “Rv” mark was used on lines introduced from the mid-to-late teens through the mid-1920s. Around 1926 or 1927, Roseville began to use a small, triangular black paper label on lines such as Futura and Imperial II. Silver or gold foil labels began to appear around 1930, continuing for several years on lines such as Blackberry and Tourmaline, and on some early Pine Cone.

From 1932 to 1937, an impressed script mark was added to the molds used on new lines, and around 1937 the raised script mark was added to the molds of new lines. The relief mark includes “U.S.A.”

All bottom mark images appear courtesy Adamstown Antique Gallery, Adamstown, Pennsylvania.

Impressed mark on Azurean vase, 8” tall.

Faint ink stamps on Baneda green vessel.

Gold foil label on Baneda pink vase.

Raised mark on Bushberry green ewer.

Raised mark on Bushberry vase

Grease pencil marks on Carnelian II vase, 14” tall.

Ink mark on Cherry Blossom pink vase, 10” tall.

Raised mark on Cosmos blue floor vase, 18” tall.

Faint mark (?) on Crystalis squat vessel, 4” tall.

Impressed numeral on Crocus urn, 6” tall.

Side-marked initials (possibly Harry Larzelere) on Della Robbia vase, 7”

tall.

Wafer mark on Della Robbia vase, 10 1/2” tall.

Wafer mark on Della Robbia vase, 10” tall.

Wafer on Egypto ewer, 11” tall.

Wafer on Egypto vase, 9” tall.

Grease pencil marks on Falline spherical vase, 6” tall.

Ink mark on Falline bulbous vase, 7” tall.

Unmarked base of Ferella vase, 6” tall.

Ink stamp on Florentine I 10” jardinière.

Black paper label on Futura footed vessel, 4 1/2” tall.

Obscured ink stamp on Hexagon vase, 5” tall.

Marks on Imperial II squat vessel.

Gold foil label and grease pencil marks on Imperial II vase, 10” tall.

Impressed mark on Iris vase.

Raised mark on Lotus vase in a trial glaze, 10” tall.

Faint impressed mark on Mara vase, 8” tall.

Obscured marks on Morning Glory vase, 10” tall.

Ink stamp on Panel vase with nudes, 10” tall.

Impressed mark on Pine Cone blue cider pitcher.

Gold foil label on Pine Cone blue spherical planter.

Raised mark on Pine Cone blue pillow vase.

Impressed and incised marks on Pine Cone blue vase.

Faint impressed and ink marks on Pine Cone blue vase.

Impressed mark on Pine Cone green footed planter.

Impressed marks on Rozane portrait vase, 13” tall.

Marks on Russco bulbous urn, 6 1/2” tall.

Raised mark and ink stamp on Silhouette brown vase.

Raised mark and ink stamp on Silhouette red vase.

Faint mark on Sunflower bulbous vessel, 4” tall.

Faint ink stamp and grease pencil on Velmoss pink vase.

Raised mark on Water Lily brown floor vase.

Raised mark on Wincraft cylindrical panther vase, 11” tall.

Mark on Windsor bulbous vessel.

Ink stamps on Wisteria bowl, 5” tall.

Faint ink stamp on Wisteria bulbous vase, 8” tall.