Monumental Vase / Pewabic Pottery
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.196
- Title
- Monumental Vase
- Artist
- Pewabic Pottery
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- 20th c.
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with iridescent glaze
- Object Creation Date
- circa 1935
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Michigan (state)
- Wayne (county)
- Detroit (inhabited place)
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Michigan (state)
- Creation Place 4
- Wayne (county)
- Creation Place 5
- Detroit (inhabited place)
- Style/Group/Movement
- Arts and Crafts
- Inscription
- Stamp on base largely obscured by glaze Sticker inside neck: PEWABIC DETROIT 97
- Dimensions
- 50.8 cm x 26.4 cm (20 in. x 10 3/8 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- vase
- Secondary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Secondary Object Type
- vase
- Physical Description
- This ceramic vase has a long oval shape with a wide neck, rounded lip and sloping shoulder area. The circular rings from the process of being thrown on the wheel can be seen beneath the glaze. The glaze is a yellow-orange matt, with dark brown patches, over a shiny celadon green and iridescent purple base.
- Subject Matter
- Pewabic Pottery was founded in Detroit, Michigan by Mary Chase Stratton, an artist of the Arts and Crafts movement. Her pottery had simple shapes and retained the natural characteristics of its material. She once said, "if an object is beautiful, it is because of its own expression, and not because it has been made to look like something else."
- Secondary Keywords
- architecture
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- modern and contemporary art
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- pottery (object genre)
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 813 x 1349
- File Size
- 55 KB
- Record
- 1972/2.196
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1972-sl-2.196/1972_2.196.jpg
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"Monumental Vase; Pewabic Pottery." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1972-sl-2.196/1972_2.196.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
