- Soap Box
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Today this item would be called a soap dish, but that name does not appear in the Fenton pottery price list of 1852. Instead there is a listing for "Soap Boxes,” which cost $4.00 per dozen.
Alternating rib pattern. Rectangular bombé shape with narrow foot rim and flared top rim. The top rim consists of a molded decoration of flowers and vines with leaves. The slightly bombé lid tapers upward to a flat surface with a branch-shaped handle and terminals of leaves and flowers.
Related examples: Barret 1958, p. 117, pl. 165c.
Book excerpt: 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]; [Whimsy Antiques, Arlington, Vermont]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1957; given to MFAH, by 1966.
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