Collection Highlights
The Great Fire of 1835: View of New York City Taken from Brooklyn Heights on the Same Evening of the Fire
c. 1835
1935.167
Gouache on heavy paper, laid on Japanese paper, wrapped over board
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Museum Collections
Luce Center
Jug
Object name
Jug
Date
1845-1848
Medium
Stoneware, cobalt oxide
Dimensions
Overall: 13 x 10 in. ( 33 x 25.4 cm )
Description
Salt-glazed stoneware jug with impressed maker's mark and decorated with cobalt blue bird perched on branch.
Credit Line
Gift of Mrs. Bayard Verplanck
Object Number
1945.464
Marks
impressed: on front: "JACOB CAIRE POKEEPSIE NY"
Gallery Label
The Caire family dominated Poughkeepsie stoneware manufacturing during the second half of the nineteenth century. French immigrant John B. Caire purchased the Main Street pottery in 1842, later run by his sons Jacob and Adam.
Due to ongoing research, information about this object is subject to change.
