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Vase

Collection Type

  • Decorative arts

Date

1906-1912

GUSN

GUSN-7261

Description

Stoneware vase, blue-black salt glaze with geometric panels framed in blue and white. Blue and white lions as border around rim.

Details

Descriptive Terms

vases
glazing (coating)
stoneware (pottery)
art pottery
Vase
Vase

Label

In exhibition: "Inspiring Reform: Boston's Arts and Crafts Movement"; Wellesley College, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley, MA, February 28-July 14, 1997; Renwick Gallery, NMAA, Washington, D.C., March 6-July 5, 1998.

Inscription

[Crook's mark] (Painted on bottom:)
"THE SOCIETY OF ARTS & CRAFTS / PRICE $ 18 ?/ CON. NO. 84 / ART NO. 35 (Adhesive tag)
$9.00 (handwritten)

Additional Identification Number

43.1983
1983.178

Maker

Crook, Russel G. (Maker)

Location of Origin

Wayland, MA, USA; Lincoln, MA, USA, Middlesex Cty

Dimensions

9 1/2 (H), 7 (diameter) (inches)

Credit Line

Gift of E.B. & Rosamond Sears

Accession Number

1987.1470

Reference Notes

Boyd, Marilee. Inspiring Reform: Boston's Arts and Crafts Movement. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1997. _____ Note _____ companyied show at Wellesley College, Davis Museum and Cultural Center

Places

Wayland (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)
Wayland (Middlesex county, Massachusetts)

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