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Object Label
Unlike the other paintings in this gallery, this work is not a portrait. Instead, it is a picture type known as an allegory, or symbolic figure. The arrow the woman holds refers to the fortunes of love.
It was more common to find a variety of painted subjects in Dutch colonial homes in New York and the Hudson Valley than in other colonial households. This wide-ranging taste was inspired by Dutch cultural traditions, which for two centuries had prized the production and display of landscapes, still lifes, and allegories, as well as portraiture.
Caption
George E. Ohr American, 1857–1918. Vase, ca. 1900. Glazed earthenware, 5 1/8 x 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (13.0 x 9.5 x 9.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Iris Alex, 2000.19. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.2000.19_view2.jpg)
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Gallery
Not on view
Collection
Maker
Title
Vase
Date
ca. 1900
Medium
Glazed earthenware
Classification
Dimensions
5 1/8 x 3 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. (13.0 x 9.5 x 9.5 cm)
Markings
Stamped on bottom: "G. E. OHR / Biloxi, Miss."
Credit Line
Gift of Iris Alex
Accession Number
2000.19
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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