Collection Highlights
Artistic Houses: being a series of interior views of a number of the most beautiful and celebrated homes in the United States
Date:
1883 - 1884
Object Number:
PR.087.1.1.35.HURPAR
Medium:
Photogravure
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Museum Collections
Decorative Arts
Crock
Object Number:
1927.91
Date:
1857-1896
Medium:
Stoneware
Dimensions:
Overall: 9 x 10 in. ( 22.9 x 25.4 cm )
Description:
Cylindrical salt-glaze stoneware crock with Albany slip-coated interior and lug handles; impressed capacity mark below neck; decorated with image of feeding chicken painted in cobalt oxide.
Gallery Label:
According to accession records, this crock was purchased from a member of the Caire family in Poughkeepsie in the 1870s. The chicken painted on the crock is similar to that on other Caire pieces. This crock may have been made by Adam Caire.
Credit Line:
Gift of Samuel V. Hoffman
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
