Bowl with Peacock Design / Rookwood Pottery
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2005/2.58
- Title
- Bowl with Peacock Design
- Artist
- Rookwood Pottery
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- founded 1880
- Medium and Support
- stoneware with modeled matte green glaze
- Object Creation Date
- 1903
- Object Creation Place
- North and Central America (continent)
- United States (nation)
- Ohio (state)
- Cincinnati
- Creation Place 1
- North and Central America (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- United States (nation)
- Creation Place 3
- Ohio (state)
- Creation Place 4
- Cincinnati
- Credit Line
- Gift of G. Robina Quale-Leach
- Style/Group/Movement
- Arts and Crafts
- Dimensions
- 9.2 cm x 13 cm x 13 cm (3 5/8 in. x 5 1/8 in. x 5 1/8 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Ceramic
- Primary Object Type
- vase
- Physical Description
- Vase has a rounded form and a matte green glaze. Molded and incised designs include a stylized peacock feather and zig-zag decoration on shoulder of vessel. Overall effect is of a simplified and sophisticated form.
- Subject Matter
- Rookwood Pottery, located in Cincinnati, Ohio, was the premiere American fine arts pottery from its foundation in 1880 through the 1930's. The early works were hand-painted but in the early twentieth century the pottery introduced its line of production ware, of which this is an example.
- Secondary Keywords
- ceramics
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- object genres
- object genres by material
- objects we use
- vessels
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1980 x 1728
- File Size
- 455 KB
- Record
- 2005/2.58
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2005-sl-2.58/2005_2_58.jpg
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"Bowl with Peacock Design; Rookwood Pottery." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2005-sl-2.58/2005_2_58.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
