Pitcher
- Date
- c.1905
- Material
- Salt-glazed stoneware
- made in
- Höhr-Grenzhausen, Rheinland-Pfalz state, Germany, Europe
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Collection
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 133W
- Dimensions
- 9 1/16 x 8 3/8 x 7 3/4 in. (23 x 21.2 x 19.7 cm)
- Credit Line
- Funds given by Mrs. Marjorie W. Wyman and other donors through the 1989 Art Enrichment Fund
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 61:1990
NOTES
Richard Riemerschmid’s spherical pitcher is encircled by a contrasting band of simplified leaves growing from underlying branches. It embodies progressive design in turn-of-the-century Austria and Germany, which often references nature with simplified or abstracted forms.
Provenance
1990/05/14 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased at auction, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Vienna, Austria, "Jugendstil, Angewandte Kunst," May 14, 1990, lot no. 462 [1]
Notes:
[1] Invoice dated May 24, 1990 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, May 24, 1990.
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased at auction, Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer, Vienna, Austria, "Jugendstil, Angewandte Kunst," May 14, 1990, lot no. 462 [1]
Notes:
[1] Invoice dated May 24, 1990 [SLAM document files]. Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, May 24, 1990.
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