Collections: Decorative Arts: Gravy Bowl with Lid, "Passaic Falls, State of New Jersey"

• Download
• Add to set
• Favorite
• Posse icon
• Share
• Print

Gravy Bowl with Lid, "Passaic Falls, State of New Jersey"

• Maker: Enoch Wood and Sons, 1819-1846
• Medium: Earthenware, blue underglaze
• Place Made: Stoke-on-Trent, Burslem, Staffordshire, England
• Dates: ca. 1825-1830
• Dimensions: 6 1/8 x 5 5/8 x 4 13/16 in. (15.6 x 14.3 x 12.2 cm)
• Markings: On bottom: printed in blue underglaze, eagle bearing banner which reads, "E PLURIBUS UNUM" standing on a rectangle which has printed within "PASSAIC FALLS / STATE OF NEW JERSEY"; impressed "B"
• Collections: Decorative Arts
• Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, American Landscape/Colony to Nation, 5th Floor
• Accession Number: 60.213.189a-b
• Credit Line: Gift of Mrs. William C. Esty
• Image: Overall, 60.213.187_60.213.189a-b_reference_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
Enoch Wood and Sons (1819-1846). Gravy Bowl with Lid, "Passaic Falls, State of New Jersey," ca. 1825-1830. Earthenware, blue underglaze, 6 1/8 x 5 5/8 x 4 13/16 in. (15.6 x 14.3 x 12.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. William C. Esty, 60.213.189a-b (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 60.213.187_60.213.189a-b_reference_SL1.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: Earthenware gravy bowl (a) and lid (b) with blue underglaze decoration (pictured with platter, 60.213.187). (a) Bowl: oval base with feather fleur-de-lis handles on either end. Border: Shells with seaweed and foliage around base, top edge of bowl and edge of lid. View on side: "Passaic Falls," riverside with falls between two bluffs with figure standing on shore on both sides of bowl. Source of view: Drawing by Alexander Robertson (1768-1841). (b) Lid: oval with notch cut out for ladle in one end with rose shaped finial. Condition: Good, little chip on edge of lid, chip on edge of bowl.