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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;&#039;Nuff_Said, post: 28546, member: 181&quot;]Trip,</p><p><br /></p><p>By accident, I was able to ID that monkey vase I thought was 19th C. Japanese Bankoware. This one...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]7096[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Boy, I could not have been more wrong!</p><p><br /></p><p>My vase above, from what little research I&#039;ve done so far, was <u>probably</u> a &quot;prototype&quot; design made by German/American designer <i>&#039;Karl L. H. Muller (1820 - 1887)&#039;</i> for the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Muller was hired by the Union Porcelain Works of Greenpoint/Brooklyn, NY in 1874 to make these special wares for that exhibition. Below are two finished designs of very similar form vases made by Muller/UPW. One is housed in the collections at Metropolitan Museum of Art and the other, the Brooklyn Museum of Art:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]7097[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]7098[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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