In the 1920s this vase, and others like it with paneled decoration, were thought to be by Stiegel and were highly prized.  However, the everted rim of this vase and the paneled decoration of related vases help to date this group to the middle of the nineteenth century. Related examples: McKearin and McKearin 1941, p. 92 and pl. 34, nos. 9–11; a group of paneled examples are at Winterthur (Palmer 1993, p. 284, nos. 259–61).

Book excerpt: David B. Warren, 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.