Karl L.H. Müller and Union Porcelain Works
Turtle with Jack-in-the-Pulpit Vase
c. 1879
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- Designer: Karl L.H. Müller
- Manufacturer: Union Porcelain Works
Turtle with Jack-in-the-Pulpit Vase
c. 1879
Physical Qualities
Porcelain, glaze, 8 1/4 × 4 1/8 × 3 1/2 in. (21 × 10.5 × 8.9 cm.)
Credit Line
Purchase with exchange funds from The Mary Frick Jacobs Collection
Object Number
1997.127.1
Native to the moist woodlands and thickets of eastern North America, Arisaema triphyllum has many picturesque popular names including jack-in-the-pulpit, bog onion, brown dragon, and American wake robin. Here, the German-born designer Karl Müller clearly exercised his sense of humor. Müller’s anthropomorphic turtles, each carrying a jack-in-the-pulpit, trudge through the forest, not unlike city-dwelling children taken on an outing to gather natural specimens for their Victorian parlor.
Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 1997; The Post Road Gallery, Larchmont, NY
On View: American Wing Second Floor, Scott 05B/Case 2
