Detail View: The AMICA Library: Vase

AMICA ID: 
MMA_.1984.256
AMICA Library Year: 
2000
Object Type: 
Decorative Arts and Utilitarian Objects
Creator Name: 
Fulper Pottery
Creator Role: 
Maker
Creator Dates/Places: 
1814-1935
Creator Name-CRT: 
Made by Fulper Pottery
Title: 
Vase
Title Type: 
Object name
View: 
Full View
Creation Date: 
ca. 1915
Creation Start Date: 
1913
Creation End Date: 
1917
Materials and Techniques: 
Earthenware
Classification Term: 
Ceramic, american art pottery
Dimensions: 
37 x 15 in. Diam. (94.0 x 38.1 cm Diam.)
AMICA Contributor: 
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Owner Location: 
New York, New York, USA
ID Number: 
1984.256
Credit Line: 
Gift of the daughters of William H. Fulper III, in honor of their grandfather, William H. Fulper II, 1984
Rights: 
Context: 

This monumental vase is one of a pair made specifically to flank the entrance to the Fulper Pottery exhibit in 1915 at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco, where the pottery were awarded a gold Medal of Honor. Its large size is a technical achievement, both in its graceful proportions and ability to be fired without breaking. Decorated in a lustre glaze, it has subtle streaks that pick up the light and reflect colors ranging from black to bronze to gold. The glaze is a striking example of one of more than a hundred developed under Fulper's art pottery line 'Vasekraft,' introduced in 1909. This vase descended in the Fulper family.

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