About This Artwork

Union Porcelain Works
American, 1863-1914
Designed by Karl L. H. Müller
American, 1820-1887

Poet's Pitcher, 1875/86

Parian porcelain
h. 21. 8 cm (8 9/16 in.)
Marked on underside of base with an eagle's head and the letter "S" with "Union Porcelain Works, Greenpoint, N.Y." above 1 86 in a yellow circular decorator's mark.
Gift of the Antiquarian Society through Mrs. Eric. Oldberg, 1996.14

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Publication History

Judith A. Barter et al, American Arts at The Art Institute of Chicago: From Colonial Times to World War I (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1998), pp. 240-241, no. 115.