Figure, “Stitch, Stitch, Stitch”
Decorative Arts and Design
MEDIUM
Matte-glazed porcelain
DATES
ca. 1875
DIMENSIONS
19 x 10 x 13 in. (48.3 x 25.4 x 33 cm)
(show scale)
MARKINGS
On front of base, incised: 'Stitch, Stitch, Stitch.'
Lower edge, incised, initials: 'U.P.W."
ACCESSION NUMBER
2013.75
CREDIT LINE
Purchase gift of Richard J. Schwartz and H. Randolph Lever Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Substantial parian ware representation of a seated seamstress. Figure of a young girl, seated on a broken wooden crate, hands clasped around one knee, shirt draped over her lap, with scissors and thread at feet ; the whole on an oval base.
Condition: thin hairline crack to one wrist of figure- appears minor.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Karl L. H. Müller (American, born Germany, 1820–1887). Figure, “Stitch, Stitch, Stitch”, ca. 1875. Matte-glazed porcelain, 19 x 10 x 13 in. (48.3 x 25.4 x 33 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Purchase gift of Richard J. Schwartz and H. Randolph Lever Fund, 2013.75 (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2013.75_front_PS9.jpg)
IMAGE
front, 2013.75_front_PS9.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2013
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