Vase | Yale University Art Gallery

June 1891

On view, 1st floor, American Decorative Arts before 1900

During the late nineteenth century, china painting grew in popularity as a socially acceptable vocation for women and as a pastime for members of the leisure class. The fashionable Faience Manufacturing Company sold blank forms for novice painters to embellish, including this Moorish-style covered vase signed with the initials M. B. G. The skillfully rendered roses cascading around the body of the vase show the influence of Japanese prints and porcelains.

Medium: Soft-paste porcelain with painted decoration and gilding
Dimensions: 18 × 8 1/4in. (45.72 × 20.955 cm)
Diam. foot: 5 3/16in. (13.1 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Nancy Stiner
Accession Number: 2006.16.1a-b
Geography: Made in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York
Culture: American
Period: 19th century
Classification: Containers
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Provenance

Inherited by Nancy Stiner from parents Dr. and Mrs. Joseph Weiner

Bibliography

Art for Yale: Collecting for a New Century, exh. cat. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 2007), 48, 351, pl. 21

Barkley L. Hendricks, "Acquisitions, July 1, 2005–June 30, 2006," in "Photography at Yale," special issue, Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2006), 209

Object copyright

No Copyright - United States

Additional information

Object/Work type

vases

Subject

branches leaves roses thorns

Marks

Impressed "1129" on underside of foot rim.

Inscriptions

"M. B. G./June 1891." in reddish brown paint on underside.

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