One of the early innovators of artistic glaze, Hugh Robertson continued the experimentation begun at his earlier venture, the Chelsea Keramic Art Works, in Dedham, Massachusetts, where he had moved his re-formed Chelsea Pottery in 1896. Ranging in color from blue and pale green to red luster—a vestige of Robertson's celebrated sang-de-boeuf (oxblood) glaze developed at Chelsea—the layers of thick, oozing glaze, melded into the surface of the irregular baluster-form of this exceptional vase, were influenced by the potter's early interest in Asian ceramics. Not surprisingly, Robertson marketed this line as Volcanic Ware. To offset the high cost of producing artistic lines, the Dedham Pottery relied on the success of the crackle-glaze of its commercial tablewares, another Asian-inspired effect.