Photograph by Ed Pollard, Canon EOS 5D Mark II digital slr-2010.

Covered Jar in the Chinese Taste with Rock Crystal Engraving

Designer Joseph Keller (British (born Meistersdorf, Bohemia), 1850 - 1934)

Manufacturer Stevens & Williams (British (Stourbridge, England), 1847 - 1931)

CultureEnglish

Dateca. 1884

MediumBlown, cut and engraved glass

Dimensions9 1/4 × 4 7/8 × 4 7/8 in. (23.5 × 12.4 × 12.4 cm)

Credit LineMuseum purchase

Object number98.6.1

Collections

Glass Art

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 116-5, Case 34

DescriptionThis covered jar is of blown lead-formula glass, cut and engraved; the jar witah round domed foot, merese, ovoid body cut with six broad lobes, and a single ring at rim; the domed lid and its finial cut with six broad lobes. The lid of the jar is engraved with flowering branches, the rim and foot with a Chinese basket-weave motif, and lobes of the body with alternating pattern of exotic birds and flowering branches.

Label TextCovered Jar ca. 1884 Joseph Keller, designer and engraver British, born Meistersdorf, Bohemia, 1850–1934 Stevens & Williams, manufacturer British, Stourbridge, England, 1847–1931 Blown, cut, and engraved glass h. 91/4 × diam. 47/8 in. (23.4 × 12.3 cm) Museum purchase, 98.6.1 Exhibition History"Cheers to Queen Victoria: British Glass from the Chrysler Collection," Waitzer Community Gallery, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, September 22, 2010 - March 20, 2011.Published ReferencesHugh Wakefield, NINETEENTH CENTURY BRITISH GLASS (1961 edition), p. 40, pl. 59a Barbara Morris, VICTORIAN TABLE GLASS AND OTHER ORNAMENTS, p. 102-104, pl. 71. Diane C. Wright (editor), _Glass Masterworks from the Chrysler Museum of Art_ (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2017), pg. 108-109.