Vase
date: label: Date
content: 1879–1880
name: label: Designer
content: Maria Longworth Nichols, American, 1849–1932
label: Producer
content: Frederick Dallas Hamilton Road Pottery
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Dragon vase (first kiln - in red); cast, cream colored stoneware body with hand-modeled dragon encirling the shoulder and neck in high relief with one leg freestanding. Cobalt blue underglaze and red overglaze decoration; gilt highlights. On reverse, fan-shaped panel of pale underglaze blue painted in overglaze brown with birds flying above cattails and rushes. Allover highly stylized, partially gilded wave pattern. Clear glaze.
place: label: made in
content: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Marcia and William Goodman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1984-84-13
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Type
content: Vase
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Glazed stoneware with gilding and applied hand-modeled dragon
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 26.7 x 21 cm (10 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)