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Plaque
John Bennett (American, 1840–1907)
1879
- Medium
- earthenware with underglaze painted decoration
- Classification
- Ceramic
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 42.8 cm (16 7/8 in.); Overall: 4.5 cm (1 3/4 in.)
- Culture
- America, New York
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Decorative Art and Design
- Credit line
- John L. Severance Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
John Bennett was trained in England. He seems to have played a crucial role there by introducing painted decoration on ceramics at the Doulton factory in the early 1870s. Although they admired his talent, his English colleagues found Bennett had a difficult personality, and his stay at the Doulton factory was brief. By 1876 he was in New York, bringing with him the concepts of the English Aesthetic Movement: muted colors and great naturalism in the depiction of birds and flowers.
