Mother Nature

Chrysanthemum

Women and Nature

Notice how we also refer to the individual parts of these jugs with terms like body, lip, and foot. This anthropomorphizing of the jugs serves as another example of the connection between women, the containment of liquids necessary to life, and the beauty of the natural world.

William Ridgway & Co.
Chrysanthemum,
c. 1860
Green Stoneware
297H146

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