Plaque
Item
Title
Plaque
Creator
De Porceleyne Fles
Date
1901
Dimensions
12 x 11 inches
Medium
Glazed stoneware
Object No.
2022.14
Marks
Painted on back: [depiction of jar] / "JT" monogram / "Delft" in script; "651" / W [conjoined monogram for P. C. M. de Fouw] / ꟼ; impressed shop mark: "Joost Thooft & Labouchere" surrounding a depiction of a pot; impressed "7"; impressed "A"; inscribed on front: "naar H. W. Mesdag"
Description
When you stop to think about Gustav Stickley, a number of terms and ideas are likely spring forward: "The Craftsman," simplicity, honesty, Arts and Crafts, and furniture maker amongst others. But Delftware collector? Probably not. Yet, the evidence has always been there, hiding in plain sight in historic photographs of the Log House Dining Room and enumerated in the 1917 inventory taken when the property was sold to the George and Sylvia Farny. It is a reminder that while we tend to construct Stickley today as an exemplar of the Arts and Crafts movement and demand a fidelity to the style consonant with our own beliefs, his life and tastes were more complex and nuanced. By including elements of Colonial Revival to Art Nouveau to Historical Staffordshire and Victorian silver, the Log House demonstrated how successfully Stickley used the style he helped to define as a container capable of holding the varied elements of good design he appreciated.
Associated names
Mesdag, Henrik Willem (after)