One of Five-Piece vase garniture
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Earthenware, tin-glazed
DATES
ca. 1780
DIMENSIONS
Height (with lid): 12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm)
(show scale)
MARKINGS
Painted in blue on bottom, claw marks above "150 / 3".
SIGNATURE
no signature
INSCRIPTIONS
no inscriptions
ACCESSION NUMBER
78.1.3a-b
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Nat Bass
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
One of Five-Piece vase garniture, ca. 1780. Earthenware, tin-glazed, Height (with lid): 12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Nat Bass, 78.1.3a-b. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , 78.1.1-.5_bw.jpg)
IMAGE
group, 78.1.1-.5_bw.jpg.
"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.
What were transparent glazes typically made from?
Glazes are generally made from vitreous glass-like substances. Silicone dioxide is the commonly mixed with metal oxides used as a “flux” to lower the melting point. Tin or lead are commonly added to the glaze, which serves to waterproof the ceramic and alter the color. For examples tin is commonly used to give the illusion that a red-colored earthenware is a white porcelain.