Vase,
ca. 1899
Grueby Faience Company, active 1894–1908, Boston, MA
2021-227
Among the approximately two dozen major manufacturers of American Arts and Crafts pottery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Boston’s Grueby Faience Company was particularly esteemed. Responding to the matte glazes on contemporary French pottery and the refined simplicity of Japanese ceramics, Grueby’s designers and decorators produced wares of a characteristically solid, understated quality that won wide admiration and accolades at international exhibitions in Paris (1900), Saint Petersburg (1901), Buffalo (1901), and Saint Louis (1904). The firm is best known for vases in the manner of these three examples: matte green, slightly rough-surfaced, with a simple, often floral, decorative motif—either stylized, as on the larger vases, or realistic, as on the smaller one.
Information
Title
Vase
Dates
ca. 1899
Medium
Glazed earthenware
Dimensions
h. 40.6 × diam. 23.5 cm (16 × 9 1/4 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Joel L. Cohen in memory of Kermit A. Brandt, Class of 1956
Object Number
2021-227
Place Made
North America, United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Inscription
Stamped, on bottom in a circle: Grueby Pottery, Boston, USA
Incisised, on bottom with decorator's monogram: E | [stamp] | P
Culture
Type
Materials
Techniques
Subject
Offered gift of Joel L. Cohen, Chicago, partner of the late Kermit Brandt, Class of 1956
