Vase with primroses
M. Louise McLaughlin
1881 · Earthenware · The American Wing
Louise McLaughlin was a pioneering figure in the history of American ceramics. Like many women of her time, she began her artistic career as a china painter. One of her earliest innovations was her discover of the barbotine technique in the late 1870s and early 1880s.This vase exemplifies McLaughlin’s work in that mode. It depicts in colored slips, the naturalistic floral composition of white primroses and foliage, in often heavy impasto, surrounded by green foliage, all on a deep blue mottled slip-decorated ground.
- Artist
- M. Louise McLaughlin
- Date
- 1881
- Medium
- Earthenware
- Culture
- American
- Department
- The American Wing
- Credit line
- Gift of Martin Eidelberg, 2020
