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'''Pauline Jacobus''' (born December 13, 1840 – 1930) was an American [[studio potter]] from [[Chicago]] who worked in [[Edgerton, Wisconsin]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cityofedgerton.com/pauline-pottery|title=Pauline Pottery|website=City of Edgerton|access-date=2017-03-04}}</ref>

Jacobus, the wife of a Chicago merchant of the 1880s, was an accomplished painter of porcelain before she decided to try her hand at crafting and decorating the very first [[art pottery]] in Chicago in 1883. Her firm "Pauline Pottery" moved to Edgerton in 1888. Although the move to Edgerton allowed the firm to expand, employing up to 40 people during its most active phase, the 1893 death of Pauline Jacobus' husband, businessman Oscar, and the simultaneous [[Panic of 1893|financial panic]] that spread across America that same year, doomed the struggling art pottery company. A studio phase of the pottery continued until Jacobus' rural Edgerton home, "The Bogart," was destroyed in a fire in July 1911. Jacobus died at a [[Dousman, Wisconsin]] retirement home, neglected and forgotten in 1930.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Pottery of Pauline |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28753992/pauline_jacobus_18401930/ |newspaper=Green Bay Press-Gazette |date=June 5, 1999 |page=46 |via = [[Newspapers.com]] |accessdate = February 23, 2019 }} {{Open access}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Edgerton Reconnects to Forgotten Past (continued) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/28753908/pauline_jacobus_18401930/ |newspaper=Wisconsin State Journal |date=September 22, 1999 |page=2 |via = [[Newspapers.com]] |accessdate = February 23, 2019 }} {{Open access}}</ref>

'''Pauline Jacobus''' was an [[United States|American]] [[pottery]] [[artisan]] from [[Chicago]] who worked in [[Edgerton, Wisconsin]].

In 2005, a large collection of Pauline Pottery went on permanent display in a museum located in the former Edgerton 1906 train depot. The collection is owned by the Arts Council of Edgerton.

Jacobus, the wife of a Chicago merchant of the 1880s, was an accomplished painter of porcelain before she decided to try her hand at crafting and decorating the very first art pottery in Chicago in 1883. Her firm "Pauline Pottery" moved to Edgerton in 1888.

==References==

Although the move to Edgerton allowed the firm to expand (with 40 hands during its most active phase), the 1893 death of Pauline Jacobus' husband, businessman Oscar, and the simultaneous financial panic that spread across America that same year, doomed the struggling art pottery company.

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==Further reading==

A studio phase of the pottery continued until Jacobus' rural Edgerton home, "The Bogart," was destroyed in a fire July 1911. Jacobus died decades later at a Dousman, Wisconsin, retirement home, neglected and forgotten.

* Montgomery, Maurice J. ''Edgerton's History in Clay: Pauline Pottery to Pickard China''. 2001.

* Pagel, Ori-Anne. ''Pauline Pottery: A Pictorial Supplement to "Edgerton's History in Clay"''. Edgerton, Wis.: Arts Council of Edgerton, 2003.

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Largely at the instigation of Ori-Anne Pagel, formerly an Edgerton art and antiques dealer, a large collection (over 40 pieces) of Pauline Pottery (and other Edgerton art clays) went on permanent display in a museum located in the former Edgerton 1906 train depot in August 2005. The collection is owned by the Arts Council of Edgerton, which was co-founded by Pagel. Her book about the ware, ''Pauline Pottery: A Pictorial Supplement to Edgerton's History in Clay'', was published by the Arts Council of Edgerton in 2003. The book (which provides photos and text to supplement former Rock County Historical Society archivist Maurice J. Montgomery's earlier history of the Edgerton pottery companies, ''Edgerton's History in Clay'')

*[http://www.wisconsinpottery.org/Pauline?press2-cabin.htm Pauline Pottery]

is the most complete and richest sample of illustrated Paulineware ever published.

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