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Flower container (Wall pocket)
1755-1775
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Materials
- Stoneware (salt-glazed)
- Salt glaze
Museum Object Number
2003.0013.121.001
Credit Line/Donor
Bequest of Mrs. Helen Shumway Mayer
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Object Number
2003.0013.121.001
Object Name
Flower container (Wall pocket)
Category
Ceramics
Place of Origin
Staffordshire; England; United Kingdom; Europe
Date
1755-1775
Materials
- Stoneware (salt-glazed)
- Salt glaze
Techniques
- Molded
Dimensions (inches)
2.4 (D) x 10.5 (L)
Dimensions (centimeters)
6 (D) x 26.7 (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. 3Article: Lange, Amanda E. 1998 English Ceramic Wall Pockets. Ars Ceramica. (No. 15, 1998/1999): 38-47.
• Similar salt-glazed models and green-glazed creamware fragment: pp. 44-45, figs. 14-15, fragment from Greatbatch site, c. 1765.Book: Edwards, Diana & Hampson, Rodney. 2005 White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles.
• Similar "cornucopia" wall pocket with same relief design: p. 147, fig. 123Book: 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"Article: Teller, Barbara Gorely. 10//1968 Ceramics in Providence, 1750-1800: An Inventory Study. Antiques. 570-77.
• Probable period reference to stoneware wall pocket: p. 575, for Providence Rhode, Island, 1795 Richard Olney estate inventory including among "old" or "old fashioned" ware, "1 stone hanging flower pot."