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Object Description
| Brief description | Bowl, Pauline Pottery, Edgerton, 1888-1894 or 1902-1909. |
| Object name | Bowl |
| Maker | Pauline Pottery, 1883-1909 |
| Date | 1888-1909 |
| Dimensions | 2"H x 5 7/8" diam. |
| Materials and techniques | Molded earthenware with hand-painted underglaze; Gilt overglaze |
| Marks | Underglazed Pauline Pottery crown, shape # 11 |
| Original location | Edgerton, Rock County, Wisconsin |
| Current location | Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin |
| Description | Molded earthenware bowl with three lobes and three curved handles. Interior hand-painted with curving pattern in yellow-green, blue and red underglaze, outlined in black and accented with dashes of gilt. Exterior airbrushed with pink underglaze. Handles overglazed with gilt. |
| History | The Pauline Pottery was a commercial art pottery works established by Pauline Jacobus in Chicago in 1883. In 1888, Jacobus and her husband Oscar relocated the company to Edgerton, Wisconsin in order to gain access to the high-quality cream-colored earthenware clay beds found in the area. In Edgerton, Oscar managed the production of porous earthenware cups for electric batteries (the pottery's primary income generator) while Pauline worked with a staff of women decorators to create ornamental wares decorated with hand-painted underglaze. Faced with financial difficulties after the death of Oscar Jacobus, the pottery was forced to close in 1894. In 1902, Pauline Jacobus reopened the Pauline Pottery on a smaller scale, operating the company from her own home until her retirement in 1909. |
| Sources | Maurice Montgomery, Edgerton's History in Clay: Pauline Pottery to Pickard China (2001); Ori-Anne Pagel, Pauline Pottery: A Pictorial Supplement to 'Edgerton's History in Clay' (Edgerton, Wisconsin: Arts Council of Edgerton, 2003); Emily Pfotenhauer, "Art Pottery in Edgerton: History and Resources" Wisconsin Object (accessed March 5, 2008): http://wisconsinobject.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/art-pottery-in-edgerton-history-and-resources |
| Related objects | Other bowls in this shape are also part of the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Museum (object #s 1950.2556 and 1956.4024): http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wda,942 and http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/u?/wda,999 |
| Owner | Wisconsin Historical Museum |
| Object # | 1956.4012 |
| Rights | (c) 2007 by the Wisconsin Historical Society. Contact the owner for more information. http://wisconsinhistory.org/museum/collections/dom_life.asp |
| Digital collection | Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database |
| Digital identifier | WHS060 |
| Digital format | XML |
| Type | Physical object |
| Keywords | Ceramics; Pottery; Earthenware; Art pottery; Bowl (vessel); Vessel (container); Container (receptacle); Furnishings and equipment; Household Accessory; Food Service Tools and Equipment |
| Date digitized | 2008-02-29 |
| Date modified | 2010-10-20 |
Description
| Object name | Bowl |
| Rights | (c) 2007 by the Wisconsin Historical Society. Contact the owner for more information. http://wisconsinhistory.org/museum/collections/dom_life.asp |
| Digital collection | Wisconsin Decorative Arts Database |
| Digital identifier | WHS060a |
| Digital format | image/jpeg |
| Type | Physical object |
| Date digitized | 2008-02-29 |
| Date modified | 2008-02-29 |
