Fish Mold

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Fish Mold
Dateearly 19th century
Made inPennsylvania, United States
MediumLead-glazed slip-covered earthenware
Dimensions3 1/4 × 18 11/16 × 8 3/8 in. (8.3 × 47.5 × 21.3 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.57.40
Non exposé

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

This highly detailed fish-form mold is made of earthenware; the potter covered it in slip or thin, liquid clay and gave the interior a brilliant saffron yellow glaze.

Adapted from: Warren, David B., Michael K. Brown, Elizabeth Ann Coleman, and Emily Ballew Neff. American Decorative Arts and Paintings in the Bayou Bend Collection. Houston: Princeton Univ. Press, 1998.


Provenance[George S. McKearin, Hoosick Falls, New York]; [George Abraham and Gilbert May Antiques, West Granville, Massachusetts]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1957; given to MFAH.
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