Vase

Decorated by: James Callowhill (British, active in the United States, 1838–1917)
Possibly made by: Faience Manufacturing Co. (1881–1892)

1902

Object Place: Boston, Massachusetts

Medium/Technique Whiteware with polychrome enamels and matte, raised gilding

Dimensions Overall: 28.6 x 16.5 cm (11 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.)

Credit Line Museum purchase with funds by exchange from a Gift of the Haim S. Eliachar Family Fund and a Gift of Donald O. Reichert

Accession Number2014.460

OUT ON LOAN
On display at Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, September 21, 2024 – January 5, 2025

CollectionsEurope, Americas

ClassificationsCeramics

DescriptionA bulbous vase with funnel-form neck with robin's egg blue glaze speckled with brown, further decorated on the body of the vase with venetian red flowers, possibly Spider mums outlined with raised gilding. Finally, a gold wash is sponged onto the background of the body and neck of one side of the vase.

Marks painted in brown on base: Jas Callowhill / Boston / 1902
stamped into base: "421"

ProvenanceBy 1997, in the personal collection of Dorothy-Lee Jones of Sebago, Maine; 2011, sold in the Estate and Personal Collection of Dorothy-Lee Jones by Poulin Antiques & Auctions, Fairfield, Maine (February 19, 2011; lot 226) to The Stradlings (Gary and Diana Stradling), dealers in New York, NY; 2014, purchased from The Stradlings by the MFA. (Accession date: March 26, 2014)