Flower Brick
Dateca. 1760
OriginEngland, London
MediumTin-glazed earthenware (delft / delftware)
DimensionsH: 4 1/2"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1960-912
DescriptionSquare brick with tapered sides and recessed top and base. Five large holes in the top, one in each corner and one in the middle, and three smaller holes in between each corner hole. Blue tin glaze decorated in blue with a Chinese landscape consisting of water, rocky clumps of grass, trees and a small house with a sloping roof and extended eaves. Blue dots around edge of recessed top, around each of the larger holes, in between each set of three holes, and in each of the four corners.Label TextThere are several recorded examples of this form with the same decoration. The London attribution is based on the decoration and on the fact that a similar piece is painted with a landscape typical of London workmanship.
InscribedNo
MarkingsNo
ProvenanceMatthew & Elisabeth Sharpe, Conshohocken, PA
Exhibition(s)
1700-1730
ca. 1760
1805-1810
1760-1780
1790-1810
ca. 1800
ca. 1820
1707 (dated)
1815-1820
1800-1815
1800
1809-1814 (movement); ca. 1825 (case)