Footed bowl

Manufacturer Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art

1913

Not on view

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. Edwards’ original drawing for this bowl is also part of the collection (2020.64.18)

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Title: Footed bowl
Maker: Parke Edwards (American, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 1890–1973 Pennsylvania)
Manufacturer: Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art
Date: 1913
Geography: Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Culture: American
Medium: Stoneware
Dimensions: H. 3 1/2 in.
Credit Line: Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2020
Object Number: 2020.64.19
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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