What is Rozane Aztec?
Rozane Aztec is a line of art pottery produced in 1904-1905 by the Roseville Pottery Company in Zanesville, Ohio.

Who designed Aztec?
The Aztec line was designed by Frederick Rhead.

The Rozane Aztec line was one of the only lines to survive the transition to Rozane, where most others were discontinued and supplanted. Its survival was however quite short lived, and it was not produced much later than early 1905.

There are 24 different forms shown in the catalog, with an additional three pitchers and one jardiniere/pedestal set. The numbering system predates the prefix system developed in 1905 for Rozane, giving the forms a simple numerical designation from 1 through 24, with the pitchers also labeled as 1 through 3. This system was common among vase lines at the time, and was used for Chloron, Cremo, and others. Many of these forms were later reused in other lines such as Della Robbia and assigned new shape numbers in those sequences.

The Aztec pieces are usually completely unmarked, but occasionally the Rozane wafer was applied near the end of their production.

The shapes were smooth and were glazed in a wide variety of colors, including blue, green, white, teal, gray, beige, brown, and mustard. The decoration was applied by the squeeze-bag technique in a variety of floral and nouveau designs. It appears that there was a wide latitude given to artists for the designs on the vases, since each form could have any number of different designs applied. However, the pitchers seem almost rigid in their adherence to a single design theme.

When was Aztec made?
The Aztec line was only produced in 1904-1905.


Below are the shapes used for the Roseville Pottery Aztec line.