Flower holder

Object/Artifact

Historic Hudson Valley

Name/Title

Flower holder

Entry/Object ID

VC.59.667

Description

Flower-holder: Circular domed top, pierced by large round central hole surrounded by 12 smaller; white ground with bluish tinge, decorated in underglaze blue with rayed arrangements of lines on top, vaguely floral and/or landscape designs on sides, which slope to small footed bottom.

Made/Created

Artist Information

Artist

Unknown

Attribution

Maker

Notes

Dates: 1700 - 1733 Date made: r. 1700 - 1733

Dimensions

Dimension Description

Overall

Height

4 in

Diameter

5-1/2 in

Dimension Notes

Display Dimensions: 4 x 5 1/2 in. (10.2 x 14 cm)

Material

Earthenware, Faience Stanniferous

General Notes

Note Type

Curatorial Remarks

Note

Mysteriously disappeared and returned, 1960. One-piece domed flower-holder of this bowl-like shape seems extremely rare. VC.59.667 has the same three ball and leaf design as VC.58.626 (Lambeth posset pot).

Note Type

StorageNote

Note

Home Location: Historic Hudson Valley, Van Cortlandt Manor, Old Parlour