Black Basalt Bulb Pot
date: label: Date
content: 1780–1800
name: label: Maker
content: Wedgwood, English, established 1759
label: Designer
content: John Flaxman, English, 1755 - 1826
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Four-sided, serpentine sides, front longer than back; shaped edges, scrolled feet. Cover set on angle, with five cups for bulbs and two piercings. Relief panels in front and two sides, with putti bearing garland, against orange field; borders filled with floral forms in pink and white, inside glazed.
place: label: made in
content: Staffordshire (Etruria), England
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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: Bequest of Erskine Hewitt
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1938-57-316-a,b
objectType: label: Type
content: ceramics
label: Type
content: Decorative Arts
label: Object Name
content: bulb pot
label: Type
content: bulb pot
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: stoneware, enamel slip ('encaustic') decoration
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a,b: overall): 14.4 × 21.1 × 16 cm (5 11/16 × 8 5/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (a: pot): 14.4 × 21.1 × 16 cm (5 11/16 × 8 5/16 × 6 5/16 in.)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (b: removable collar): 3 × 17.1 × 13.5 cm (1 3/16 × 6 3/4 × 5 5/16 in.)