Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967
- Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818
- Designer
- Pitts Harrison Burt, American, 1837 - 1906
- Decorator
- Matthew Andrew Daly, American, 1860 – 1937
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- White earthenware, thrown with silver openwork overlay. Teardrop shaped body with tapering neck, flaring tri-cornered lip; circular foot. Curved handle attached from neck to the body. Ewer decorated with underglaze yellow and orange roses with green leaves against a subtly shaded background of gold, green and brown. Exterior: underglaze, glaze; yellow with crackalture. Bottom: not glazed. Overlaying the piece is silver openwork, engraved with various flowers, leaves, arabesques and volutes. Covering the base and foot, the overlay extends upward and becomes a large openwork pattern in the area beneath the handle. Handle and lip sheathed in undecorated silver.
- Credit Line
- Gift of Marcia and William Goodman
- 1894
- Accession Number
- 1984-84-9
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ceramics
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- ewer
- Type
- ewer
- Medium
- earthenware, glaze, silver overlay
- Dimensions
- H x diam.: 54.6 x 21.3 cm (21 1/2 x 8 3/8 in.)
- made in
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (pottery)
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA (silver)
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1984-84-9
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4f6140ef2-c28a-4675-8c90-89714a3e4541
