(b Trenton, NJ, March 29, 1859; d Trenton, Jan 11, 1920). American pottery manufacturer and designer. He aspired to be an artist as a youth, and in 1875 he became interested in applying art to industry, learning to design pottery forms and decoration with Elijah Tatler (1823–76) at the Trenton Pottery. In 1883 he became art director for Ott & Brewer, Trenton, and was instrumental in developing an American version of Irish Belleek that was highly decorated with coloured glazes and raised gold pastework. In 1887 he developed a similar line for the Willets Manufacturing Co. in Trenton. These two potteries made primarily ironstone dinner and toilet wares, but Lenox was determined to create a company completely devoted to art wares. With several partners he founded in 1889 the small Ceramic Art Co., Trenton, which made a delicate ivory porcelain elaborately decorated in high Victorian taste. About 1902 the firm began to experiment with tableware, making costly services for individual clients. In ...