The Moorish-inspired design of this vase – with its horizontal bands of complex ornament rendered in subtle tones with gold relief – is characteristic of works by Edward Lycett. Born and trained in England, Lycett arrived in New York in 1861, settling in Brooklyn, the center of the city’s ceramics industry. He served from 1884 to 1890 as artistic director of the Faience Manufacturing Company, where he introduced innovative ceramic bodies, novel glazes, and a progressive formula for integrating molded parts. Lycett’s critically acclaimed works retailed through elite firms like Tiffany and Company.
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