Lycett vase
date: label: date made
content: 1902
name: label: maker
content: Lycett, Edward
notes: label: Description
content: About Edward Lycett Pottery:
label: Description
content: Edward Lycett arrived in the United States in 1861 and quickly received important commissions such as the 1865 White House painted porcelain service for President Abraham Lincoln. He produced the first vitrified china in America with pure gilt decoration for Tiffany & Company. Travelling across America, Lycett taught the decorative technique of china painting at major ceramic centers such as Cincinnati and East Liverpool, Ohio, where soon-to-be influential women in the art pottery movement, Maria Longworth Nichols and Mary Louise McLaughlin, began their careers as china painters. Within his own time, Lycett was called “the pioneer of china painting in America” by ceramic historians. In 1890, at the age of 57, Edward Lycett left Faience Manufacturing (See About Faience Manufacturing Company) when it was sold and moved to Atlanta, Georgia, to work in his son William’s studio. He continued to experiment with clay and glaze materials as well as different firing techniques until he died in 1910. A number of small pieces were donated to the Smithsonian and illustrate the breakthroughs of Edward Lycett’s experimentation. Rather than making flat test tiles, Lycett chose to make miniature forms to test his various metallic effects. Such cruets, vases, pitchers, and heart-shaped dishes display red iridescence, mirrored and matte gilding, and bubbling glaze techniques.
label: Description
content: About the Object:
label: Description
content: A small vase with no handles, double gourd neck and wide bottom decorated with gilding at the top; at the neck are decorated acanthus leaves. Crawling glaze at the center of form and the rest in an iridescent pink glaze. Signed by Edward Lycett on bottom.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Georgia, Atlanta
topic: label: Subject
content: Art Pottery
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Edward Lycett
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CE.217338E
label: accession number
content: 40008
label: catalog number
content: 217338E
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vase
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: ceramic; porcelain (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: pink (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 5 in x 2 1/4 in; 12.7 cm x 5.715 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: 4 7/8 in x 2 5/8 in; 12.3825 cm x 6.6675 cm