Vase with peacock feathers

Designer Designed by Sara Sax

Manufacturer Rookwood Pottery Company American

1913

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It was in Cincinnati at the Rookwood Pottery that the drive toward more organic, plant-based forms found fruition. Whether it was a result of the general Zeitgeist of 1900 or more specific influences from Europe, some Rookwood artists gradually freed their designs from the constraints of wheel-based forms and painted decoration. This vase, marked with an incised V, was sheathed in a new type of glaze developed at Rookwood that they called their “Vellum” line, noted for its soft, matte surface. The peacock feather here, both incised and painted, is a rigid conventionalized design that is a more modernist version of developments in America at the end of the nineteenth century.

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Title: Vase with peacock feathers
Designer: Designed by Sara Sax (1870–1949)
Manufacturer: Rookwood Pottery Company (American, Cincinnati, Ohio 1880–1967)
Date: 1913
Geography: Made in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Culture: American
Medium: Earthenware
Dimensions: H. 9 1/2 in.
Credit Line: Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2020
Object Number: 2020.64.134
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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