John La Farge

Painter and decorator John La Farge places camellias, roses, and a daisy in a three-handled Japanese crackle pottery container whose form resembles a wooden pail. Even before his first visit to Japan in 1886, he had assembled an extensive personal collection of Japanese objects.

La Farge employed the transparency and vibrancy of watercolor to develop ideas related to his stained glass compositions. His still lifes of flowers often represent the saturated and opalescent effects that he achieved in the design of ornamental windows.