Bell-shaped vase on high foot

Inventory number: St 432

Neck and foot finished with a stripe of ochre slip. The vase is composed of four parts: the three lower parts (the foot and two spheroids) are decorated with lobed and cross-hatched motifs on a white background. The top bell-shaped part has a pattern of stylised clouds, separated from one another and from the green surface by fine lines.

Material:

Creamware

Technique:

Slip-cast form. Decoration obtained by the application of matt cobalt and green (two shades) enamel within the contours (or perhaps without the aid of contours, cf. the foot), traced with ochre slip. Green enamelled inside of neck.

Workshop:

Boch. La Louvière

Form number:

1084, impressed

Decoration number:

D.1256 LL. L in blue

Date:

Around 1928-1929

Marks:

Blue rectangular stamp: she-wolf mark - Boch Frères - Keramis - Made in Belgium

Dimensions:

H : 310 - C : 179 - B : 119

Location:

Keramis, La Louvière

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