Cleveland Museum of Art

Plaque

John Bennett

Date

1879

Medium

earthenware with underglaze painted decoration

Culture

America, New York

Department

Decorative Art and Design

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

John Bennett was trained in England. He seems to have played a crucial role there by introducing painted decoration on ceramics at the Doulton factory in the early 1870s. Although they admired his talent, his English colleagues found Bennett had a difficult personality, and his stay at the Doulton factory was brief. By 1876 he was in New York, bringing with him the concepts of the English Aesthetic Movement: muted colors and great naturalism in the depiction of birds and flowers.

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