Monumental Vase

Accession Number
1972/2.196

Title
Monumental Vase

Artist(s)
Pewabic Pottery

Object Creation Date
circa 1935

Medium & Support
stoneware with iridescent glaze

Dimensions
20 in. x 10 3/8 in. ( 50.8 cm x 26.4 cm )

Credit Line
Transfer from the College of Architecture and Design

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."

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.

Primary Object Classification
Ceramic

Primary Object Type
vase

Additional Object Classification(s)
Decorative Arts

Collection Area
Western

Rights
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Keywords
Monuments
ceramics (object genre)
modern and contemporary art
stoneware (pottery)
vase
vases
vessels

1 Related Resource

Cabinet U: Shelf 2
(Part of: Albertine Monroe-Brown Study-Storage Gallery)

& Author Notes

All Rights Reserved

On display

UMMA Gallery Location ➜ AMH, 2nd floor ➜ 205 (Albertine Monroe-Brown Study-Storage Gallery) ➜ Cabinet U ➜ Shelf 2