Inkwell and cover
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Body (a) composed of figure of a rook standing on a ribbed lillypad, the bird's tail overhanging the edge and its breast supported by the slightly opened center flower which forms the inkpot; separate knobbed lid (b) sits on the inkpot. Overall form and lid covered in mustard yellow to brown glaze.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase through gift of Annie Schermerhorn Kane
- 1903
- Accession Number
- 1969-30-1-a,b
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- ceramics
- Decorative Arts
- Inkwell and cover
- Medium
- earthenware, glaze
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 18.2 x 30 x 27 cm (7 3/16 x 11 13/16 x 10 5/8 in.)
- made in
- Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1969-30-1-a_b
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq45ed0b182-5592-4ebf-80ed-0796c07456a8
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