<img width="640" height="656" src="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1984-84-13-700x718.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Carved dragon vase (first kiln - in red); cast, cream colored stoneware body with hand-modeled dragon encirling the shoulder and neck in high relief with one leg freestanding. Cobalt blue underglaze and red overglaze decoration; gilt highlights. On reverse, fan-shaped panel of pale underglaze blue painted in overglaze brown with birds flying above cattails and rushes. Allover highly stylized, partially gilded wave pattern. Clear glaze." style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1984-84-13-700x718.jpg 700w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1984-84-13-293x300.jpg 293w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1984-84-13-170x174.jpg 170w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1984-84-13.jpg 999w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="28931" data-permalink="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/03/14/the-woman-behind-artful-american-ceramics/1984-84-13/" data-orig-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1984-84-13.jpg" data-orig-size="999,1024" 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="1984-84-13" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1984-84-13-293x300.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/1984-84-13-700x718.jpg" />In celebration of Women’s History Month, March Object of the Day posts highlight women designers in the collection. This dragon vase was made at Frederick Dallas’s Hamilton Road Pottery by Maria Longworth Nichols. Nichols worked there before founding her own firm, Rookwood Pottery, later in 1880. This example is marked with a number “3” on...
