Moon flask rust body with central reserve
ca. 1878–82
Medium
Porcelain
Dimensions
confirmed: 14 1/8 × 12 × 6 3/4 in. (35.9 × 30.5 × 17.1 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Porcelain
Culture
British, Lambeth, London
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Helene Fortunoff and Robert Grossman, 2017
Accession Number
2018.62.157
About the Artist
Worcester factory|Doulton Manufactory · 1751–2008
The Worcester porcelain factory, established in 1751 in Worcester, England, by physician Dr. John Wall and apothecary William Davis along with 14 partners, marked the birth of one of Britain's most enduring ceramic enterprises. Investing £4,500 at Warmstry House on the River Severn, the founders drew on contacts with the Bristol porcelain manufactory to develop a novel soft-paste porcelain using s...