Object Image

Sugar bowl

Unknown Artist

Mackley worked with Anthony W. Baecher before the latter moved to Virginia. The close similarity of the work of the two potters is seen here in the applied stylized leaves and the floral elements in high relief.

Credit: Gift of Mrs. Robert W. de Forest, 1933

1875-80
Earthenware
15.2cm
34.100.161a, b
Image and text © Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2019

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