Egg-shaped vase

Inventory number: DP 140

“Palmette" design. Neck and foot finished with a cobalt stripe and an undulating line with ovals nestled inside its curves. From this band emerge eight large petals consisting of three concentric half-ovals. The space in between the two rows of petals is filled with a pattern of regular spirals connected by straight lines (underglaze).

Material:

Stoneware

Technique:

Slip-cast form. Decoration with printed contours finished with bottle-green, brown and greyish blue glazes. Underglaze painted in cobalt on a white ground (pounced).

Workshop:

Boch. La Louvière

Form number:

901, impressed

Decoration number:

D 654 & D, impressed

Date:

Design created in 1920, still in production in 194

Marks:

Grès - Kéramis, impressed

Dimensions:

H : 230 - C : 73 - B : 108

Location:

Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels

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