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earthenware glaze
Not currently on view
Gift of the American Ceramic Society
This vase was created and painted during the interwar period (1919-1939), after Weller Pottery developed the well-known and beautiful Hudson line, and before the Depression-era slump in art pottery sales necessitated simpler, more standardized designs. Hester Pillsbury, a Zanesville-area ceramic painter, decorated the shaded blue vessel with entwined magnolia flower heads, stems, and leaves. The magnolia (several species of the genus Magnolia are native to the United States) is a flowering tree well-known to most southerners; the plant has attracted a great deal of horticultural interest as ever-more spectacular blooms are highly sought-after. The voluminous tree stands in many gardens; it has uses in traditional medicine, is a primary food for several species of butterfly, and is the state tree and state flower of Mississippi.
Accession Number: 2006.102.194
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