Pitcher with Floral Reliefs

Gallery 356, European Art 1500-1850, third floor

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Pitcher with Floral Reliefs

c. 1650

Artist/maker unknown, German

This is a characteristic example of a vessel used to decant wine into a glass, a practice that also reflects the standing of high-quality stonewares among the luxury objects used for refined dining in the period. Its decoration of repeated stylized bouquets against an intense cobalt blue ground became popular around the middle of the seventeenth century.

Gallery 356, European Art 1500-1850, third floor

Object Details

Title:

Pitcher with Floral Reliefs

Date:

c. 1650

Artist:

Artist/maker unknown, German

Medium:

Salt-glazed stoneware with cobalt decoration

Dimensions:

9 9/16 × 5 inches (24.3 × 12.7 cm)

Classification:

Containers

Credit Line:

125th Anniversary Acquisition. Gift of Charles W. Nichols, 2013

Accession Number:

2013-162-2

Geography:

Made in Westerwald Region, Germany, Europe

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Gallery 356, European Art 1500-1850, third floor

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