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Vase with Built-in Frog

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1830-1860

GUSN

GUSN-2564

Description

Large, thickly potted, of rectangular shape on raised foot. Deep dish with twelve holes to center. Characteristic mottled amber-brown on yellowish-cream ground.

Details

Descriptive Terms

vases
glazing (coating)
molding (forming)
lead glaze
Rockingham ware (American ceramics style)
Earthenware
Molded
Rockingham
Vase, Flower

Associated Building

Original to Cogswell's Grant (Essex, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Dimensions

3 x 7 1/4 (HxW) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Bertram K. and Nina Fletcher Little

Accession Number

1991.726

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