Tazza
Medium
Earthenware with transfer-printed decoration
Dimensions
Overall (confirmed): 7 × 12 1/8 × 7 5/8 in. (17.8 × 30.8 × 19.4 cm)
Classification
Ceramics-Pottery
Culture
British, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
Department
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, The Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation Gift, in memory of George Munroe, 2015
Accession Number
2015.543
Tags
About the Artist
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin|Minton(s) · 1812–1852
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812–1852) was a British architect, designer, and theorist whose fervent advocacy for Gothic architecture transformed Victorian Britain's built environment and established the intellectual foundations of the Gothic Revival movement. Born in London to the French architect and draughtsman Auguste Charles Pugin, he showed exceptional talent from childhood, producing de...