Footed bowl
Parke Edwards American
Manufacturer Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art
Parke Edwards executed this vase and several other stoneware vases while studying at the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art (see also 1991.216.1). Edwards is primarily known for his metalwork in the Gothic style; his ceramics are the least well known. Utilizing salt-glazed stoneware with cobalt blue decoration that was a staple of utilitarian jugs and jars throughout most of the nineteenth century, Edwards has here reinterpreted the material with its deeply carved decoration and heavy buttress-like feet, harking back to a Gothic style, one that he embraced in his other decorative designs. His most celebrated commission remains the decorations—primarily metalwork— for the Swedenborgian cathedral in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania from 1913 and 1929.
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