Description:
Large and deep English Staffordshire wash bowl or basin (part of a wash set with the pitcher, HD 93.021.1, decorated with the Harftford's Deaf and Dumb Asylum and the NYC Almshouse), made by Ralph Stevenson, working in Cobridge between about 1810-1835. The bowl is decorated with a dark blue transfer-print of the Lawrence Mansion (so-called - it is now known as the Boston Atheneum) at the corner of Beacon and Park Streets in Boston, built about 1802. Lafayette stayed here during his stay in Boston in 1824; Abbott Lawrence, prominent merchant, Harvard University donor and founder of the city of Lawrence, lived there between 1830 and 1840; and later George Ticknor, one of the founders of the Boston Public Library, lived there. It was later remodeled into four houses, and then into shops. The print source for this image was apparently a Boston newspaper article in 1825, which was reproduced in Samuel Adams Drake's "Old Landmarks and Historic Personages of Boston" in 1873. The bowl has a scalloped brim, dark blue foliate pattern on both the inner and outer wall sides, and plain, white foot ring; the underside is marked with an incised 'C'. A washbowl is the only form on which this view appears. Though commonly known by the pattern name given here, it is actually a view of the Boston Atheneum with the spire of the Octagon Church in the background. It is generally paired with a wash pitcher of Esplanade and Castle Garden, New York, but in this case it is paired with a pitcher showing the Hartford Asylum for the Deaf and Dumb.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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