Currently not on view
Lion,
1849
Lyman Fenton & Co., American, 19th century
y1929-302
Information
Title
Lion
Dates
1849
Medium
Flint enamel ware
Dimensions
23.8 x 27.5 x 14.6 cm (9 3/8 x 10 13/16 x 5 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Trumbull-Prime Collection
Object Number
y1929-302
Place Made
North America, United States, Vermont, Bennington
Marks/Labels/Seals
Impressed mark under base Lyman Fenton & Co / Fentons / Enamel / Patented / 1849 / Bennington Vt.
Culture
Type
Mary Hollister Prime (née Trumbull) (1827-1872) and William Cowper Prime, Class of 1843 (1825-1905); 1890 gift to Princeton University Art Museum.
- William C. Prime, Pottery and porcelain of all times and nations, (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1879). , p. 128, fig. 98
- Edwin Atlee Barber, The pottery and porcelain of the United States: an historical review of American ceramic art from the earliest times to the present day, (London; New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893). , p. 174 (illus.)
- Marilyn Aronberg Lavin, The eye of the tiger: the founding and development of the Department of Art and Archaeology, 1883-1923, Princeton University, (Princeton, NJ: Department of Art and Archaeology and the Art Museum, 1983).
