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On Display: House - Shipley Room
Flower container (Wall pocket)
1760-1770
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Earthenware (creamware)
- Lead glaze
Museum Object Number
1978.0105.001
Credit Line/Donor
Museum purchase
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Object Number
1978.0105.001
Object Name
Flower container (Wall pocket)
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1760-1770
Materials
- Earthenware (creamware)
- Lead glaze
Techniques
- Molded
- Painted
Dimensions (inches)
3.2 (H) x 8.8 (W) x 9.3 (L)
Dimensions (centimeters)
8.2 (H) x 22.4 (W) x 23.7 (L)
Bibliography and Bibliographic Notes
Article: Grigsby, Leslie B. 07//2015 Let's Vase It! Revisiting Once-Popular Flower Containers. Antiques and Fine Art. (Autumn 2015): 174-75.
• Published: p. 175, fig. 4Article: Grigsby, Leslie B. 2005 British Earthenware and Porcelain in Eighteenth Century America, in Gray, Jonathan. 2005. Welsh Ceramics in Context. 2. 71-91.
• Published: p. 74, pl. 4.4Article: Lange, Amanda E. 1998 English Ceramic Wall Pockets. Ars Ceramica. (No. 15, 1998/1999): 38-47.
• Published: p. 40, fig. 4Book: Rackham, Bernard. 1935 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of pottery and porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 2 vol.
• Similar example in salt-glazed stoneware: vol. 2, A no. 540Article: Lange, Amanda E. 1998 English Ceramic Wall Pockets. Ars Ceramica. (No. 15, 1998/1999): 38-47.
• Similar salt-glazed block mold (Wood family), biscuit creamware fragments (Whieldon site) & salt-glazed versions: pp. 43-44, figs. 12-13.Book: Lange, Amanda E. Delftware at Historic Deerfield, 1600-1800.
• Pair of bird pattern wall pockets: pp. 120-21, no. 73, with period American references to "flower horns"Book: Skerry, Janine E. & Hood, Suzanne Findlen. 2009 Salt-Glazed Stoneware in Early America.
• Period reference, possibly to similar form: pp. 152-53, fig. 22, New York merchants ad, May 17, 1762, offering "Venis Flower Faces both Green and white"Catalogue: Northeast Auctions, Portsmouth NH (auction catalogue).
• Similar model wallpocket, with elongated, foliate lower end: August 14-16, 2015 sale, lot 187.