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After Conservation Hand-Thrown Lid American Midwest culture Late 19th – early 20th century Stoneware, slip, and glaze, L. 17 cm x W. 17 cm x H. 5.5 cm Bonniebrook collection #2019.1

Hand-Thrown Lid: Researched, Conserved, and Reconstructed by Sabrina Osment

September, 2020 by Sarah Teel

Before Conservation
Hand-Thrown Lid
American Midwest culture
Late 19th – early 20th century
Stoneware, slip, and glaze, L. 17 cm x W. 17 cm x H. 5.5 cm
Bonniebrook collection #2019.1

 

After Conservation
Hand-Thrown Lid
American Midwest culture
Late 19th – early 20th century
Stoneware, slip, and glaze, L. 17 cm x W. 17 cm x H. 5.5 cm
Bonniebrook collection #2019.1

This hand-thrown lid for a stoneware crockery vessel was excavated from Bonniebrook, the estate of American illustrator, cartoonist, artist, writer, and suffragette Rose O’Neill, who is best-known for her invention of the Kewpie doll character.  Several years after O’Neill’s death in 1944, her house at Bonniebrook burned to the ground, and curious local people sometimes visited the ruined estate to look through the ruins. When the Bonniebrook Museum and Homestead was established in the late 20th century, many of these objects were donated back to the museum, and many still await reconstruction and identification. This heavy crockery object has a thick rim and the remains of a handle, and it was decorated very simply with a dark slip and a clear glaze for durability. All together, these features indicate that this was likely the lid for a simple, everyday vessel for cooking, serving, and storage of food.

 

 

For more information, you may contact the researcher(s) noted in the title of this exhibit entry, or Dr. Billie Follensbee, the professor of the course, at BillieFollensbee@MissouriState.edu

Filed Under: 2019 Fall, ART/MST 488: Basic Conservation of Art and Artifacts Tagged With: american midwest culture, bonniebrook collection, ceramics, conservation, early 20th century, late 19th century, late 20th century, stoneware

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