Collections: Decorative Arts: Century Vase

15:13 07/11/2008

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Century Vase

• Manufacturer: Union Porcelain Works, 1863-ca.1922
• Designer: Karl L. H. Mueller, American, born Germany, 1820-1887
• Medium: Porcelain
• Place Made: Greenpoint (now Brooklyn), New York, USA
• Dates: 1876
• Dimensions: Height: 22 1/4 in. (56.5 cm) Diameter of base: 10 in. (25.4 cm)
• Markings: Raised circle with impressed mark of "U.P.W." with eagle head holding "S" in its beak.
• Inscriptions: Inscribed: "Century Vase / Exhibited at the Centennial / Exhibition at Philadelphia / Manufactured 1876 / By Union Porcelain Works / Greenpoint"
• Collections: Decorative Arts
• Museum Location: This item is on view in American Identities: A New Look, Orientation Gallery, 5th Floor
• Accession Number: 43.25
• Credit Line: Gift of Carll and Franklin Chace, in memory of their mother, Pastora Forest Smith Chace, daughter of Thomas Carll Smith, the founder of the Union Porcelain Works
• Image: Front, 43.25_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
Union Porcelain Works (1863-ca.1922). Century Vase, 1876. Porcelain, Height: 22 1/4 in. (56.5 cm) Diameter of base: 10 in. (25.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Carll and Franklin Chace, in memory of their mother, Pastora Forest Smith Chace, daughter of Thomas Carll Smith, the founder of the Union Porcelain Works, 43.25 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 43.25_SL1.jpg)
• Catalogue Description: Vase, hard paste porcelain, upper section elaborately decorated with banding of blue thunderbolts, eagles and stars superimposed in gold. The handles are bison heads. Middle section with portrait medallions on one side the sewing machine, steam boat, planter, planter and reaper, opposite side has relief of Washington in white with two medallions of the Union Porcelain Works and a factory on the other side, a gold band with animal heads separates middle section from the lower section which has designs in white relief, depicting Indians, a revolutionary soldier, and the Boston Tea Party. Condition: Good