Ewer
date: label: Date
content: 1894
name: label: Manufacturer
content: Rookwood Pottery, American, 1880 - 1967
label: Manufacturer
content: Gorham Manufacturing Company, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, founded 1818
label: Designer
content: Pitts Harrison Burt, American, 1837 - 1906
label: Decorator
content: Matthew Andrew Daly, American, 1860 – 1937
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: White earthenware, thrown with silver openwork overlay. Teardrop shaped body with tapering neck, flaring tri-cornered lip; circular foot. Curved handle attached from neck to the body. Ewer decorated with underglaze yellow and orange roses with green leaves against a subtly shaded background of gold, green and brown. Exterior: underglaze, glaze; yellow with crackalture. Bottom: not glazed. Overlaying the piece is silver openwork, engraved with various flowers, leaves, arabesques and volutes. Covering the base and foot, the overlay extends upward and becomes a large openwork pattern in the area beneath the handle. Handle and lip sheathed in undecorated silver.
place: label: made in
content: Cincinnati, Ohio, USA (pottery)
label: made in
content: Providence, Rhode Island, USA (silver)
setName: label: See more items in
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
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: 1984-84-9
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: ewer
label: Type
content: ewer
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: earthenware, glaze, silver overlay
label: Dimensions
content: H x diam.: 54.6 x 21.3 cm (21 1/2 x 8 3/8 in.)