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Dogwood Vase

Creator: John Bennett
Offered by: Lillian Nassau LLC

Description
Dogwood Vase
John Bennett
1882

This baluster-form ceramic vase features English-born Art Potter John Bennett’s signature naturalistic underglaze decoration, depicting crisply rendered dogwood branches laden with large white blossoms with pink-tinged tips and green leaves, with thin black outlines, against a variegated dark ground. This vase was produced in Bennett’s New York City studio around 1882, shortly before before he retired to West Orange, New Jersey in 1883.   

A vase by Bennett with related Dogwood blossom decoration dating from 1882 is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2020.64.4); a second related vase from the same year with similar Dogwood motif is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2009.6).

Height: 8 inches (20.3 cm)
Diameter: 4 ¾ inches (12.1 cm)

Related example illustrated:
Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen and Martin Eidelberg, “Gifts from the Fire: American Ceramics, 1880-1950: From the Collection of Martin Eidelberg,” (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 2021), pg. 52 fig. 1.

More Information

Documentation:	Documented elsewhere (exact item)
Period:	19th Century
Creation Date:	1882
Styles / Movements:	Traditional
Incollect Reference #:	804918

Dimensions

H.	8 in;	Diam.	4.75 in;
H.	20.32 cm;	Diam.	12.07 cm;

Message from Seller:

Lillian Nassau LLC, established in 1945, specializes in the extraordinary work of Tiffany Studios and Louis Comfort Tiffany, including lamps, glass, pottery, and metalwork. With over seventy-five years of expertise, they also offer 19th and 20th-century Decorative Art, Design, and Sculpture—contact them today at 212.759.6062 or via email at info@lilliannassau.com.