Walter Scott Lenox left Willets in 1889 to found the Ceramic Art Company, later Lenox China. Production of art porcelain was the company’s sole aim. In a departure from the firm’s characteristic decoration in enamels and raised gold paste, the decorator Kate Sears, about whom little is known, painstakingly carved delicate vignettes on the sides of porcelain vessels such as this vase, with its nymphs in petal skirts personifying flowers.
Ceramic Art Company, later Lenox, Incorporated, Trenton, New Jersey, ca. 1892–2006.
Artist: Ceramic Art Company (American (Trenton, New Jersey), 1889–1896) Date: ca. 1897Medium: Porcelain, overglaze enamel decorationAccession: 1987.26On view in:Gallery 774
Artist: Ceramic Art Company (American (Trenton, New Jersey), 1889–1896) Date: 1889–1906Medium: Belleek porcelain, with overglaze enamel decoration and gildingAccession: 2010.471.1On view in:Gallery 774
Artist: Ceramic Art Company (American (Trenton, New Jersey), 1889–1896) Date: 1889–1906Medium: Belleek porcelain, with overglaze enamel decoration and gildingAccession: 2010.471.2On view in:Gallery 706
Artist: Attributed to Ceramic Art Company (American (Trenton, New Jersey), 1889–1896) Date: ca. 1890–96Medium: PorcelainAccession: 2011.321.12a, bOn view in:Gallery 774