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Vase

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1806-1842

GUSN

GUSN-61381

Description

Vase in the shape of a hexagonal tower with crenelated turrets, emerald green glaze. Flange at top, may have been a jar but the lid is missing. Model of Conisbrough Keep in South Yorkshire, England.

Details

Descriptive Terms

vases
earthenware
Earthenware
Vase

Associated Building

Original to Beauport, Sleeper-McCann House (Gloucester, Mass.),

Maker

Unknown

Location of Origin

England

Dimensions

7 (H), 5 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of Constance McCann Betts, Helena Woolworth Guest and Frasier W. McCann

Accession Number

1942.1942.3

Places

Conisbrough (Doncaster unitary authority, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom)

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