Skip Navigation

Potpourri

Decorative Arts and Design

MEDIUM Unglazed Porcelain
  • Place Made: Worcester, England
  • DATES ca. 1890
    DIMENSIONS 3 3/4 x 5 7/8 x 10 3/4 in. (9.5 x 15 x 27.3 cm)  (show scale)
    MARKINGS Underside: stamped in brown [company logo]/ 'TRADEMARK'; in purple paint: '1/2097'; at outer edge, small white paper label with blue ink: '5402(?)'
    ACCESSION NUMBER 1999.152.312
    CREDIT LINE Gift of the Estate of Harold S. Keller
    CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Unglazed porcelain circular potpourri on three raised feet. Wide, circular potpourri with central opening, lightly fluted interior and slight upward curving reticulated upper section with vertical dark gold bands and outer edge in molded rope design in dark gold, attached below, a conforming band with relief molded, evenly spaced pink and yellow small flowers; attached are vertical relief molded feet as a female mask and curlicue border design on either side of mask, with gold highlights. Condition: damage to one foot and evidence of restoration.
    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
    CAPTION Grainger and Co.. Potpourri, ca. 1890. Unglazed Porcelain, 3 3/4 x 5 7/8 x 10 3/4 in. (9.5 x 15 x 27.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Harold S. Keller, 1999.152.312. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.1999.152.312_view1.jpg)
    IMAGE overall, CUR.1999.152.312_view1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2011
    "CUR" at the beginning of an image file name means that the image was created by a curatorial staff member. These study images may be digital point-and-shoot photographs, when we don\'t yet have high-quality studio photography, or they may be scans of older negatives, slides, or photographic prints, providing historical documentation of the object.
    RIGHTS STATEMENT Creative Commons-BY
    You may download and use Brooklyn Museum images of this three-dimensional work in accordance with a Creative Commons license. Fair use, as understood under the United States Copyright Act, may also apply. Please include caption information from this page and credit the Brooklyn Museum. If you need a high resolution file, please fill out our online application form (charges apply). For further information about copyright, we recommend resources at the United States Library of Congress, Cornell University, Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums, and Copyright Watch. For more information about the Museum's rights project, including how rights types are assigned, please see our blog posts on copyright. If you have any information regarding this work and rights to it, please contact copyright@brooklynmuseum.org.
    RECORD COMPLETENESS
    Not every record you will find here is complete. More information is available for some works than for others, and some entries have been updated more recently. Records are frequently reviewed and revised, and we welcome any additional information you might have.
    Grainger and Co.. <em>Potpourri</em>, ca. 1890. Unglazed Porcelain, 3 3/4 x 5 7/8 x 10 3/4 in. (9.5 x 15 x 27.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Estate of Harold S. Keller, 1999.152.312. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.1999.152.312_view1.jpg)