Museum Replica Vase. What do these Acronyms Stand for?

Thank you!

 

I found it guys. Thank you all any way.

(Metropolitan Museum of Art . Brooklyn Museum of Art)

 

'For decoration only' rather begs the question of 'What else would you do with it?'

Drill for oil or use it as a hammer?

 

AF,

That junk museum replica vase above helped me ID a 19th century piece I have.

Please look within the 'Finds Thread' (post #2026 & #2033) for the results.

 

That junk museum replica vase above helped me ID a 19th century piece I have.

Well, I'm sorry, but that was unauthorised use of a decorative item and I have no choice but to report you to the Museum Police, who will be round in their black helicopters to drag you off kicking and screaming to the Museum Re-education Facility in Dumb Luck, Nevada, where you will be taught the difference between 'Decorative Use only' and everything else by an intensive program of sleep deprivation, water boarding and semi starvation.

I know it seems harsh, but only by constant vigilance and vast expense can the idiot who dreamed up the 'Decorative Use Only' sticker be kept in his useless job doing such idiotic things, a right set down in the 'Secret Constitution' for all really dim third generation Harvard men to have some sort of a well paid job.

 

Nuff, so this museum replica looks like one of the vases in those two posts? Or is one of those photos actually of the museum replica that you have? Inquiring minds want to know...

And AF, that last post was very entertaining!

 

Hi AF,
Thanks I really needed the laugh this morning.
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Sleep deprivation, what I'm suffering from right now. With in-laws here from out of state, cleaning and working, I'm exhausted.

@Fig, I was researching another vase I have when I came across this...



I knew the shape/form was very similar to a 19th C. piece I have so I started researching the museum acronyms at base. After a bit of searching, I was able to pin down the acronyms and locate the original vase the above was made after in the Brooklyn Museum. From the information in the museum's description I was able to ID my piece. Pure dumb luck!

 

Museum Replica...


Original 19th C. piece from the BMA...


My piece, undecorated, 19th C. original...


From the book: American Porcelain, 1770 - 1920 by Alice Cooney Frelinghuysen, page 192 & 193 this reference: "The same general form is also known in a smaller size and, in rarer cases, with a monkey at the base and a smaller monkey at the rim".