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Vase

1900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Rookwood Pottery (maker)
Wilcox, Harriet Elizabeth (artist)
Place of origin
United States (made)

Earthenware vase decorated with flower designs by Harriet Elizabeth Wilcox, made by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1900.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Earthenware
Vases
Object type
Vase
Materials and techniques
Earthenware, with painted slip decoration
Earthenware
Slip
Painted
Brief description
Earthenware vase decorated with flower designs by Harriet Elizabeth Wilcox, made by Rookwood Pottery, American, 1900.
Dimensions
  • Height: 56.6cm
  • Width: 14cm
Style
Art Nouveau
Gallery label
(1987-2006)
VASE 'WISTERIA'
Rockwood Pottery
Manufacturer
Olga Geneva Reed
(born 1873)
Decorator
Cincinnati Ohio: about 1900
Earthenware
with painted slip decoration

1689-1900

'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900'

Rookwood pottery, founded in 1880 as an amateur concern by a potter, Maria Longworth Nichols, was soon partly staffed with paid employees, some from the Art Academy of Cincinnati, others from England and Japan. Inspired by the English Arts and Crafts movement, it allowed its decorators free rein, never forcing them to copy patterns. Early products were stoneware inspired by French art pottery but in 1893 pastel colours were introduced. This vase, shown at the Paris 1900 Exhibition, was purchased from Siegfried Bing's shop, L'Art Nouveau, which handled Tiffany's products.
Subject depicted
Flowers
Bibliographic reference
Greenhalgh, Paul (Ed.), Art Nouveau: 1890-1914 . London: V&A Publications, 2000
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
1689-1900

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Record createdJanuary 7, 2004
Record URL
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