Grand Feu Vase
date: label: date made
content: 1913
notes: label: Description
content: About the Arts and Crafts Movement:
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content: Beginning in England in the early 1880s, the Arts and Crafts movement spread across the United States and Europe by the late 1880s. It celebrated the importance of beauty in everyday objects and urged a reconnection to nearby nature. The movement resisted the way industrial mass production undermined artisan crafts and was inspired by the ideas of artisan William Morris and writer John Ruskin. Valuing hand-made objects using traditional materials, it was known for a color palette of earth tones. Its artistic principles replaced realistic, colorful, and three-dimensional designs with more abstract and simplified forms using subdued tones. Stylized plant forms and matte glazes echoed a shift to quiet restraint in household décor. The Arts and Crafts movement also embraced social ideals, including respect for skilled hand labor and concern for the quality of producers’ lives. The movement struggled with the tension between the cost of beautiful crafts and the limited number of households able to afford them. Some potters relied on practical products such as drain tiles to boost income or supported themselves with teaching or publications. Arts and Crafts influence extended to other endeavors, including furniture, such as Stickley’s Mission Style, and architecture, such as the Arts and Crafts bungalow, built widely across the United States. American Arts and Crafts pottery flourished between 1880 and the first World War, though several potteries continued in successful operation into the later 20^th^ century.
label: Description
content: About Grand Feu Pottery:
label: Description
content: Begun in 1912-13 in Los Angeles, California, by Cornelius Brauckman, the firm produced classically-shaped high-fired white stoneware in matte and glossy finishes in many colors. Though winning a gold medal in the San Diego Exposition of 1915, the pottery was no longer listed in 1916 in Los Angeles (Evans 1987:116).
label: Description
content: (Evans, Paul, 1987. Art Pottery of the United States. New York: Feingold and Lewis Publishing Corp.)
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content: About the Object:
label: Description
content: Elongated baluster shaped vase with high shoulders arching to a moderate sized base. Inward curving neck flares out to lip. Chocolate brown low gloss glaze with cloudy mottling and striations. Glaze known as "Mission." The foot has a narrow blue band of melted glaze. Impressed "Grand Feu Pottery LA Cal." and "TT" with incised "71."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Los Angeles
topic: label: Subject
content: Art Pottery
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Cornelius Brauckman
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CE.279768
label: catalog number
content: 279768
label: accession number
content: 55899
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vase
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: monochrome, brown (overall surface decoration color name)
label: Physical Description
content: ceramic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 10 11/16 in x 4 1/4 in; 27.14498 cm x 10.795 cm