Permanent Collection Record
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Metadata
Object ID |
2005.1.84 |
Collection |
Ceramics Collection |
Media Collection |
American Art Pottery Collection |
Manufacturer |
Rookwood Pottery Company (1880-1967) |
Title |
Four-Sided Limoges Lamp Base Hand Decorated with Squirrels, Swallows, and Ivy Limoges Lamp Base with Swallows and Grapevine |
Date |
1882 |
Decorator |
Unknown |
Cipher |
Illegible cipher on vessel's underside |
Makers Marks |
The underside has a die-impressed manufacturer's mark that reads ROOKWOOD, another die-impressed mark that reads 97, and another die-impressed mark that reads ROOKWOOD / 1882. |
Description |
An example of Rookwood Pottery Company (1880-1967) Limoges, sometimes called Cincinnati Limoges after its French counterpart, this decorative glaze treatment was first introduced in 1880 and discontinued in 1885. This lamp base features slip-painted squirrels, swallows, and ivy covered in a clear, high-gloss glaze, and overglaze gilt decoration. Limoges is Rookwood's earliest example of underglaze slip decoration and was strongly influenced by unusual Japanese imagery and design. |
Medium |
Earthenware, Glaze, Slip |
Technique |
Cast, Glazed, Hand Decorated, Gilt |
Height (in) |
7.000 |
Diameter (in) |
9.000 |
Culture |
American |
School |
Arts and Crafts Movement |
Place of Origin |
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States |
Credit Line |
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Downey |
Source Collection |
Downey Family Collection |
People |
Downey, Mr. and Mrs. Richard |
Search Terms |
Airbrushed American Art Pottery Animals Arts and Crafts Movement Birds Cast Cincinnati, Ohio Footed Vessels Gilt Gold Gold Grapes Green Hand Decorated High Gloss Ivy Japonisme Lamp Bases Limoges Ohio Art Ohio Artists Ohio Companies Ohio Manufacturers Pottery Artists Pottery Decorators Rookwood Pottery Company (1880-1967) Sprayed with an Atomizer Squirrels Swallows Underglaze Slip Painted Yellow |
Location |
Not on view |