Arequipa Pottery Vase
date: label: date made
content: ca 1913-1916
name: label: maker
content: Arequipa Pottery Studio
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.
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content: About Arequipa Pottery:
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content: Arequipa Pottery was originally established as a Progressive Era experiment in occupational therapy for tuberculosis patients at Dr. Philip King Brown's private Arequipa Sanatorium near Fairfax, California. Dr King argued that requiring his patients to work in the pottery provided them with moral and physical benefits, and allowed people of limited financial means to pay for the healthcare provided by his facility.
label: Description
content: Brown hired Frederick H. Rhead, a noted and successful ceramicist, to create and teach pottery-making. Rhead was most likely responsible for making this piece.
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content: About the Object:
label: Description
content: Buff-colored clay body covered with runny, shiny, dark green crackle glaze. Asian ginger jar shape with domed cover that has small button finial. Decoration of low-relief carved bands of leaves and scrolls at base; five vertical panels of stylized low-relief arabesques on bulbous belly; and bands of pierced arabesques on curved shoulder, vertical collar and cover.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: California, Fairfax
topic: label: Subject
content: Art Pottery
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content: Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
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content: Health & Medicine
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content: Domestic Furnishings
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Eri and Phyllis Richardson
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1982.0806.01ab
label: accession number
content: 1982.0806
label: catalog number
content: 1982.0806.01ab
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vase
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 41.1 cm x 29.7 cm; 16 3/16 in x 11 11/16 in