Mary Sheerer for Newcomb College Pottery
Important lamp with Louisiana Irises


USA, 1904
glazed earthenware, patinated metal, beaded shade
21 h × 14.75 dia in (53 × 37 cm)

Impressed and glazed manufacturer's mark to underside 'NC VV82' with artist's initials 'M.S.'.

Provenance: Collection of B.G. Poucher, Evanston | Estate of Sonia and Walter Bob

Exhibited: Louisiana Purchase Exposition, 30 April - 1 December 1904, St. Louis, MO | The Art That is Life: The Arts & Crafts Movement in America 1875-1920, 4 March - 31 May 1987, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (traveled to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York)

Literature: Newcomb Pottery, manufacturer's catalog, unpaginated Newcomb Pottery: An Enterprise for Southern Women, 1895-1940, Poesch, pg. 43, pl. 18 The Art That is Life: The Arts & Crafts Movement in America 1875-1920, Kaplan, pg. 36 The Arts & Crafts of Newcomb Pottery, Conradsen et. al. , pg. 155, fig. 6 illustrate this example

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