- Celery Vase
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This piece and B.62.27 represent brown-glazed pottery models of the celery vase form (commonly called tulip vases) that became very popular at mid-century. The faceted body and scalloped top echo closely pressed glass models, which in turn emulate cut glass examples (see B.91.55).
Related examples: Barret 1958, p. 146, pi. 213; Spargo 1969, pl. XXV For pressed glass examples, see Palmer 1993, p. 276, no. 250; Spillman 1981, p. 219, no. 843f.
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[George S. McKearin, Hoosick Falls, New York]; [Whimsy Antiques, Arlington, Vermont]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, 1957; given to MFAH.
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