Lyman, Fenton & Co.
Figure of a Stag

CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Figure of a Stag
Datec. 1849–1858
Made inBennington, Vermont, United States
MediumLead-glazed earthenware (flint enamel ware)
Dimensions10 3/4 × 11 1/2 × 6 7/8 in. (27.3 × 29.2 × 17.5 cm)
Credit LineThe Bayou Bend Collection, gift of Miss Ima Hogg
Object numberB.48.1.2
Not on view

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Department
Bayou Bend
Object Type
Description

Related examples: Barret 1958, p. 283, pl. 365 and p. 284, pl. 366; Spargo 1924, p. 233.


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[American Art Association, Anderson Galleries, New York, by January 28, 1933]; [Ginsburg & Levy, New York, 1933–1948]; purchased by Miss Ima Hogg, November 16, 1948; given to MFAH.
Exhibition History

Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
[no inscriptions]
Impressed on underside: Lyman Fenton & Co., / FENTON'S / ENAMEL / PATENTED / 1849 / BENNINGTON, Vt. [Barret 1958, p. 14, fig. IXa]

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