Vase

Kate B. Sears|Ceramic Art Company, Trenton, New Jersey

ca. 1892 · Porcelain · The American Wing

Walter Scott Lenox left Willets in 1889 to found the Ceramic Art Company, later Lenox China. Production of art porcelain was the company’s sole aim. In a departure from the firm’s characteristic decoration in enamels and raised gold paste, the decorator Kate Sears, about whom little is known, painstakingly carved delicate vignettes on the sides of porcelain vessels such as this vase, with its nymphs in petal skirts personifying flowers.

Artist

Kate B. Sears|Ceramic Art Company, Trenton, New Jersey

Date

ca. 1892

Medium

Porcelain

Culture

American

Department

The American Wing

Credit line

Gift of Lenox, Incorporated, 2006