Plaque
- Date
- 1905–10
- Material
- Glazed earthenware
- made in
- United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Collection
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Current Location
- Not on view
- Dimensions
- 8 1/4 x 8 1/4 in. (21 x 21 cm)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Peggy Ives Cole
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 1746:1981
NOTES
This landscape of two trees on a hillside has a subdued beauty. Henrietta Jones, an independent potter who taught at Washington University, used thickly applied colored glazes with a matte finish and slight modeling to create dusky, shadowed effects. She said of her work, “I especially pride myself on the shapes of my pottery and its glazes…. It is all straight art pottery and its merit is in its forms. There are no… glaring colors, no distorted figures. Everything is made from beginning to end by hand.”
Provenance
- still in 1911
Halsey Cooley Ives (1847–1911) [1]
- 1981
Peggy Ives Cole, Essex, NY, by inheritance [2]
1981 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Peggy Ives Cole [3]
Notes:
[1] This plaque was part of the estate of Halsey Cooley Ives [letter from James Burke to Peggy Ives Cole, June 15, 1981, SLAM document files].
[2] Peggy Ives Cole is the granddaughter of Halsey Cooley Ives [donor information sheet, signed May 27, 1981, SLAM document files].
[3] Minutes of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 10, 1981.
Halsey Cooley Ives (1847–1911) [1]
- 1981
Peggy Ives Cole, Essex, NY, by inheritance [2]
1981 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, given by Peggy Ives Cole [3]
Notes:
[1] This plaque was part of the estate of Halsey Cooley Ives [letter from James Burke to Peggy Ives Cole, June 15, 1981, SLAM document files].
[2] Peggy Ives Cole is the granddaughter of Halsey Cooley Ives [donor information sheet, signed May 27, 1981, SLAM document files].
[3] Minutes of the Acquisitions and Loans Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 10, 1981.
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