Vase
Hampshire Pottery
1904–14 · Earthenware · The American Wing
The Hampshire Pottery in Keene, New Hampshire, was established in 1871 by James S. Taft, primarily for the production of flower pots and other utilitarian wares of locally-found clay. Just after the turn of the century, the firm added an art line, making earthenware vessels embellished with different colored glazes, the domain of Taft’s brother-in-law Cadman Robinson, who was its driving force. The dominant glaze was a smooth opaque matte green that capitalized on the popularity of the Grueby Pottery’s distinctive matte green glaze developed in 1897. The organic form of this vase copies a similar form made at the Amphora Pottery in Austria, and the foreign-made vase likely served as a model from which a mold was taken (see L.2016.61.10).
- Artist
- Hampshire Pottery
- Date
- 1904–14
- Medium
- Earthenware
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2020
