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Leaf Pitcher

This is a Pitcher. It was designed by Lajos Mack and manufactured by Zsolnay, Pècs Factory. It is dated ca. 1901 and we acquired it in 2007. Its medium is earthenware, eosin glaze. It is a part of the Product Design and Decorative Arts department.

The lusterware ceramics produced by Zsolnay of Pécs, Hungary, represent some of the most innovative forms and glazing technology of the late 19th and early 20th century. The Zsolnay firm was founded in 1853 by Miklós Zsolnay whose son, Vilmos, took over the company's leadership in 1865. It was under Vilmos that Zsolnay began to transform both the design and technology of its ceramic wares. Combining local tradition with close attention to stylistic developments in England and France, Zsolnay's production was unique to the period.
Zsolnay's experimentation included reinterpretation of historical forms, including those with references to the Far Eastern origins of lusterware. It was Zsolnay's use of eosin-reduced glazing to create freeform, non-figural color patterns on sinuous ceramic bodies that made the company's production so popular at the turn of the 20th-century.

It is credited Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund.

A free-blown favrile glass bowl vase whose iridescent glaze gives it a multidimensional colored effect of blue, purple and gold, with the blue-purple more apparent in the bottom half of the vessel. The shape is a somewhat depressed sphere with a heavy, rolled-over rim from a squarish opening with three visible thick ribs irregularly drawn down and diminishing to points at the base.

Favrile Bowl Vase
glass.
Gift of Anonymous Donor.
1952-166-33

Peacock Vase Vase
mold-blown, iridized glass.
Gift of Stanley Siegel, from the Stanley Siegel Collection.
1975-32-11

Calyx Leaf Perfume Bottle
glass, metal, silk, plastic.
Gift of Prescriptives Worldwide.
1993-90-1

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Its dimensions are

H x W x D: 17.1 × 25.1 × 20.3 cm (6 3/4 in. × 9 7/8 in. × 8 in.)

It has the following markings

On base, impressed stamp: five overlapping facade topped with cross; "ZSOLNAY" / "C.C.E.[...]" / "6151"

Cite this object as

Leaf Pitcher; Designed by Lajos Mack (Hungarian, 1877–1963); Manufactured by Zsolnay, Pècs Factory; Hungary; earthenware, eosin glaze; H x W x D: 17.1 × 25.1 × 20.3 cm (6 3/4 in. × 9 7/8 in. × 8 in.); Museum purchase from Charles E. Sampson Memorial Fund; 2007-3-1

This object was previously on display as a part of the exhibitions Iridescence and Rococo: The Continuing Curve 1730-2008.

Short URL http://cprhw.tt/o/2DTfP/
Accession Number 2007-3-1
Object ID 18708063