Permanent Collection Record
Images
Metadata
Object ID |
1952.10386 |
Collection |
Ceramics Collection |
Media Collection |
American Art Pottery Collection |
Manufacturer |
Rookwood Pottery Company (1880-1967) |
Title |
Shapely Standard Glaze Vase Hand Decorated with Flowers |
Date |
1893 |
Decorator |
Amelia Brown Sprague (1870-1951) |
Cipher |
"ABS" for Amelia Brown Sprague incised on the underside |
Makers Marks |
The underside has a die-impressed manufacturer's mark with the conjoined "RP" flame logo with 7 flames, designating that this piece was made in 1893 / shape number 665 / W. The artist's cipher also appears on the underside. |
Description |
An example of Rookwood Pottery Company's Standard Glaze introduced in 1884, this brown shapely vase, shape number 663, was hand decorated by Amelia Brown Sprague (1870-1951) and features blue cornflowers slip painted on an airbrushed background. Given its name because it was the standard product line produced by Rookwood during the company's early years, the Standard glaze line received international recognition at the 1889 Universal Exposition in Paris. |
Medium |
Stoneware, Glaze, Slip |
Technique |
Cast, Glazed, Hand Decorated, Sprayed with an Atomizer |
Height (in) |
3.543 |
Diameter (in) |
2.559 |
Culture |
American |
School |
Arts and Crafts Movement |
Place of Origin |
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
Credit Line |
Gift of Mrs. Charles Gorsuch, Mrs. Charles Runkle, and Mrs. Russell Hay |
Source Collection |
Gorsuch Family Collection |
People |
Gorsuch, Margaret Sprague, Amelia Brown |
Search Terms |
Airbrushed American Art Pottery Arts and Crafts Movement Blue Cincinnati, Ohio Female Artists Flowers Gloss Hand Decorated Ohio Art Ohio Artists Ohio Companies Ohio Manufacturers Pottery Artists Pottery Decorators Rookwood Pottery Company (1880-1967) Sprayed with an Atomizer Standard Glaze Translucent Underglaze Slip Painted Vases |
Location |
On view in the Arts of Ohio Gallery, 3rd Floor |