Showing posts with label vases. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vases. Show all posts

Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Variations (The Rose)

Anthony van Dyck
Portrait of a Woman with a Rose
ca. 1635-40
oil on canvas
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston


Johann Baptist Drechsler
Flowers
1786
oil on panel
Belvedere Museum, Vienna

Wybrand Hendriks
Flower Still Life
ca. 1810
oil on panel
Portland Art Museum, Oregon

Franz Xaver Petter
Still Life with Roses and Grapes
1828
watercolor on paper
Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna

Eugène Delacroix
Vase of Flowers on a Console
1849-50
oil on canvas
Musée Ingres Bourdelle, Montauban

Gustave Courbet
Vase of Lilacs, Roses and Tulips
1863
oil on canvas
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Josef Lauer
Nasturtiums and Roses
before 1881
oil on canvas
Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna

Édouard Manet
Roses in Champagne Glass
1882
oil on canvas
Burrell Collection, Glasgow

Anonymous German Designer
Trellis with Roses
ca. 1900
printed, embossed and die-cut wallpaper border
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Childe Hassam
Maréchal Niel Roses
1919
oil on canvas
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Rebecca Salsbury James
Black Vase and Pink Rose, Mexico
1933
oil on glass
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Max White Kuehne
Roses
1922
oil on linen
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Anonymous French Designer
Rose Wreath
ca. 1920-30
silk jacquard shawl
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Eikoh Hosoe
Ordeal by Roses #38
1963
gelatin silver print
National Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC

Eikoh Hosoe
Ordeal by Roses #25 (Yukio Mishima)
1963
gelatin silver print
National Museum of Asian Art, Washington DC

Beatriz Milhazes
The Carnation and the Rose
2000
acrylic on canvas
Guggenheim Museum, New York

Kate Lucey Whitney
Roses in Winter Shelters at The Whim, Newport, Rhode Island
2011
digital photograph
Archives of American Gardens, Washington DC

Robespierre

Who wouldn't like to have the power to kill
Friends and enemies at will and fill
The jails with people you don't know or know
Only slightly from meeting them a year ago.
Maybe at an AA meeting, where they don't even use last names.
Hi, I'm Fred. Instead of being someone who constantly blames
And complains, why not annihilate?
Why not hate? Why not exterminate? Why not violate
Their rights and their bodies? Tell
The truth. Who wouldn't like to? There's a wishing well in hell
Where every wish is granted.
Decapitation gets decanted.
Suppose you have the chance
To guillotine the executioner after having guillotined everyone else in France?

– Frederick Seidel (2016)

Friday, April 24, 2026

Solids

Anonymous Venetian Maker
Compote
ca. 1550-1650
glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia


Baccarat Cristallerie
Paperweight
ca. 1845-55
blown glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
Cologne Bottle
ca. 1860
blown glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
Sweetmeat Dish
ca. 1860
blown glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
Epergne
ca. 1850
blown glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Thomas Webb & Sons (Stourbridge, England)
Vase
ca. 1886
glass
Frick Art Museum, Pittsburgh

George and Thomas Woodall
The Intruders
ca. 1893
carved glass cameo
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Albert Louis Dammouse
Bowl
ca. 1905
pâte de verre
McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, Texas

Tiffany & Co. (New York)
Floriform Vase
ca. 1907
blown glass
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

Jacoba van Heemskerck
Composition
ca. 1920
leaded glass
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Anonymous French Maker
Perfume Bottle
ca. 1925
glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

René Lalique
Bowl with Parrots
1931
glass
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Flavio Poli
Figurine
ca. 1930-40
solid worked and iridized glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Alice Trumbull Mason
Abstraction
1941
mosaic
(shells, stones, tiles and glass set into concrete)
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Andre DeLatte
Vase
before 1953
blown glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

William Morris (born 1957)
Canopic Jar: Javan Muntjac
1995
blown and applied glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Deborah Moore
Yellow Lady Slipper
2008
blown glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Thee too, O King, hath she taken
    And bound in her tenfold chain;
    Yet faint not, neither complain;
The dead thou wilt not awaken
    For all thy weeping again.
They perish, whom gods begot;
The night releaseth them not.
Beloved was she that died
And dear shall ever abide.
For this was the queen among women, Admetus, that lay by thy side.

Nor as the multitude lowly,
    Asleep in their sepulchres,
    Not as their grave be hers,
But like as the gods held holy,
    The worship of wayfarers.
Yea, all that travel the way
Far off shall see it and say,
Lo, erst for her lord she died,
To-day she sitteth enskied;
Hail, lady, be gracious to usward; that always her honour abide. 

– Euripides, from Alcestis, translated by A.E. Housman (before 1936)

Thursday, April 23, 2026

Solids

Mount Washington Glass Co. (New Bedford, Mass.)
Burmese Vase
ca. 1885-95
blown glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia


Baccarat Cristallerie (France)
Tumbler
1848
pressed glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Anonymous American Maker
Wig Stand
18th-19th century
glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Boston & Sandwich Glass Co.
Cologne Bottle
ca. 1870
blown glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Anonymous Venetian Maker
Goblet
ca. 1890-1910
blown glass
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Émile Gallé
Dragonfly Bowl
ca. 1902
glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Jacoba van Heemskerck
Composition (Blue Tree)
ca. 1920
leaded glass
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Josef Hoffmann for J. & L. Lobmeyr, Vienna
Champagne Glass
1912
blown glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Pairpoint Glass (Sagamore, Mass.)
Vase
ca. 1935
blown glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Suzanne Lalique
Vase
1931
press-molded glass
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Imperial Glass Co. (Bellaire, Ohio)
Bud Vase
ca. 1910
blown glass
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Cristallerie de Schneider (Paris)
Vase
ca. 1924-25
blown glass with metal mount
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Dominick Labino
Untitled
1969
glass
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Claire Falkenstein
Corona
1971
brazed copper and fused glass
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Benjamin Moore
Opaline Exterior-Fold Set: Vase, Bottle, Bowl
1995
blown glass
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

William Morris (born 1957)
Cinerary Urn
2002
blown glass with horsehair cording
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia

Amber Cowan
Compote with Candle Holder
2013
pressed glass
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas

In heaven-high musings and many,
    Far-seeking and deep debate,
Of strong things find I not any
    That is as the strength of Fate.
Help nor healing is told
In soothsayings uttered of old,
In the Thracian runes, the verses
    Engraven of Orpheus' pen;
No balm of virtue to save
Apollo aforetime gave,
Who stayeth with tender mercies
    The plagues of the children of men. 

She hath not her habitation
    In temples that hands have wrought;
Him that bringeth oblation,
    Behold, she heedeth him naught.
Be thou not wroth with us more,
O mistress, then heretofore;
For what God willeth soever,
    That thou bringest to be;
Thou breakest in sunder the brand
Far forged in the Iron Land;
Thine heart is cruel, and never
    Came pity anigh unto thee. 

– Euripides, from Alcestis, translated by A.E. Housman (before 1936)