Vase (decorated with stylized leaves and buds)

Grueby Faience Company, American, 1894 - 1909
Wilhelmina Post, American, active 1898 - 1907

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about 1900

Ceramic with matt glaze (green and yellow)

Overall: 11 9/16 × 6 1/2 in. (29.3 × 16.5 cm)

Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through a bequest from Lulu C. and Robert L. Coller, Class of 1923

C.984.18

Geography

Place Made: United States, North America

Period

20th century

Object Name

Pottery

Research Area

Decorative Arts

On view

Inscriptions

Stamped in bottom: GRUEBY FAIENCE Co. BOSTON U.S.A./ Inscribed in bottom: W.P>

Label

Typical of the Grueby Company’s finest wares, this vase was hand thrown by men who worked in the factory and then decorated by women who had graduated from Boston art schools. As an unmarried woman and the daughter of immigrants, Wilhelmina Post achieved some financial independence by applying ornamentation to Grueby vases. She incised the wide leaves and delicate yellow buds encircling the opening on this vase intended to hold flowers.

From the 2024 exhibition Beyond the Bouquet: Arranging Flowers in American Art, curated by Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art

Course History

WRIT 5, On Poor Taste, William Boyer, Winter 2015

English 39.01, American Fiction: 1950-1990, Kimberly Brown, Winter 2025

Exhibition History

Beyond the Bouquet: Arranging Flowers in American Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, December 18, 2024 - late 2025.

Grueby Pottery, A New England Arts and Crafts Venture: The William Curry Collection, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, July 2-September 18, 1994

Provenance

Jordan-Volpe Gallery, Inc., New York, New York; sold to present collection, 1984.

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