Bag-shaped vase on foot

Inventory number: DP 64

This design is called "Moonwort" or "Honesty". Ten stems of honesty are distributed over the body at a slight slant. Each stem bears six seed pods which all come together on the body.

Material:

Stoneware C

Technique:

Slip-cast form. Stencilled decoration of a matt ochre glaze on a ground of matt bottle-green on the foot, chestnut on the lower part of the body, and brown up to the neck. Inside glazed green. Contours applied with a brush.

Workshop:

Boch. La Louvière

Form number:

915 & C, impressed

Decoration number:

D652, impressed

Date:

Created in 1920, still in production in 1940

Marks:

Gres - Keramis, impressed

Dimensions:

H : 260 - C : 148 - B : 146

Location:

Keramis, La Louvière

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