By the early 20th century yellowware was no longer fashionable.

Sat in a blue-banded yellowware bowl and pawed up the lid of a Red Wing crock.

These wares are quite distinctive, and are unlikely to be confused with Yellowware, either in appearance, or through recovery in the same contexts.

The earliest documented American yellowware was in 1797, with large-scale production starting in 1828 in New Jersey.

East Liverpool, Ohio, was the manufacturing base of much of the yellowware used in the United States during the mid- to late-19th century.

Not all Rockingham ware was made using yellowware clay, and to distinguish it from other types of yellowware some collectors and antiquarians use the term "brown-glazed yellowware".

Additionally, while other types of stoneware were produced in America concurrently with it-for instance, ironstone, yellowware, and various types of china-in common usage of the term, "American Stoneware" refers to this specific type of pottery.

Though it shares characteristics of its body with Yellowware, and was thrown in many of the same potteries, Rockingham, or Rockingham type ware is considered as a different product from Yellowware due to its distinctive mottled brown glaze.