This very handsome Lonhuda Faience vase stands 4.25" high by 5.25" in diameter. Based upon our research online, the Lonhuda Pottery Company of Steubenville, Ohio, was organized in 1890 by William Long, W. H. Hunter, and Alfred Day. Long and Laura Fry developed the Faience glaze line in 1892, a glaze application delivery process developed by Fry. Lonhuda exhibited at the Chicago Exposition in 1893, where Sam Weller saw their wares. Plans to enlarge the Steubenville plant never materialized, with a large part of the production going to Zanesville's Weller Pottery. At some point, Sam Weller acquired an interest in Lonhuda, eventually changing the name to 'Louwelsa', a combination of his daughter Louise's name and his own. Lonhuda closed in 1895-96. William Long went on to establish the Denver China Company around 1900-1905. This Lonhuda vase is decorated with a single crisp Wild Rose blossom and bud, simple, yet elegant. It is glazed in a brown standard glaze, dominated in lighter chocolate tones, with very complementary colors in the artwork. The decoration is not signed. This vase is marked Lonhuda on the base, along with the LF shield logo and its shape number 256. It is in original condition, with numerous glaze anomalies and bubbles, mostly under the rim, and all shown in the pix.