Art Pottery
Art Pottery
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- Description (Brief)
- Glazed and fired porcelain inkstand. The end product of a technical series donated to illustrate the steps involved in creating an inkstand. See catalog 94,509. The decoration of the final product appears to be slip painting, where colored clays are applied with a brush under the glaze. The glaze itself is a rich reddish brown on a yellow ochre ground.
- Decorator: Grace Young (1869-1947)
- Description
- 94,846 and 94, 509
- Evolution of an inkstand
- About 1889
- Made by Rookwood Pottery Company (1880-1967)
- Cincinnati, Ohio
- In the late 19th century, Smithsonian curators were interested in promoting the educational roles of Museums, and often acquired objects that would demonstrate technological and artistic advances in a wide range of industries.
- The group of artifacts pictured here illustrates the steps involved in producing a ceramic inkstand from a ball of clay, to an inkstand formed and ready for firing, the same cut open to reveal the inner chamber, and finally the inkstand in its completed state. This technical series was given to the Smithsonian by the Rookwood Pottery Company in 1889.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- Inkwell
- Date made
- About 1890
- About 1889
- maker
- Rookwood Pottery Company
- place made
- United States: Ohio, Cincinnati
- Physical Description
- ceramic, porcelain, unfired (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 27/32 in x 2 5/32 in; 9.779 cm x 5.461 cm
- ID Number
- CE.94846-3
- accession number
- 22190
- catalog number
- 94846-3
- Credit Line
- Donated by Rookwood Pottery Company through Harry Flaxman
- subject
- Art Pottery
- writing implements
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- Home and Community Life: Ceramics and Glass
- Industry & Manufacturing
- Domestic Furnishings
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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