Samuel Bell & Son
Jar

MakerAmerican, active c. 1882–1908
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Jar
Datec. 1882–1895
Made inStrasburg, Virginia, United States
MediumLead-glazed earthenware with slip decoration
Dimensions6 1/2 × 5 1/2 in. diameter (16.5 × 14 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.72.94
Current Location
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens
Ceramics Study Room
On view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Related examples: Wiltshire 1975, p. 85, pl.38. 

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.


Provenance[McKearins’ Antiques, New York]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1929; given to MFAH, 1972.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[no inscriptions]
Impressed on body: S. BELL & SON / STRASBURG [Comstock 1994, p. 240, fig.5.116]

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