<img width="640" height="960" src="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1990-70-2.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Image features a six-sided bottle-form vase with a bulbous bottom, ascending into a narrow neck, and a rounded arrow like top. The white body is decorated with a symmetrical pattern of diamonds in black, yellow, and mint green. Please scroll down to read the blog post about this object." style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1990-70-2.jpg 683w, https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1990-70-2-200x300.jpg 200w, https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1990-70-2-157x235.jpg 157w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="36766" data-permalink="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2019/11/27/fennia-for-america/1990-70-2/" data-orig-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1990-70-2.jpg" data-orig-size="683,1024" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="1990-70-2" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1990-70-2-200x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/1990-70-2.jpg" />The remarkably graphic, geometric pattern of bright yellow and sea-green crystalline forms that map the surface of this elongated, arrow-like vase appear definitively modern. The origin of this decoration, though, is decidedly not. This vase was made by Arabia, the principal industrial pottery in Finland during the opening decade and a half of the twentieth...
