The eight facets are alternately plain black and decorated with a complex pattern of simple geometric motifs in different colours over the whole top part of the facet. Around the black foot runs a band with the same geometric pattern as that on the coloured facets.
Material:
Creamware
Technique:
Slip-cast form. Decoration with printed contours traced with ochre slip, filled in with matt black, brown and olive green enamel on a white ground. Inside completely painted in ochre slip.
Workshop:
Boch. La Louvière
Form number:
(1033)
Decoration number:
D.1137 & C in ochre
Marks:
Blue rectangular stamp: she-wolf mark - Boch Frères - Keramis - Made in Belgium
Signature :
Ch.Catteau in blue
Dimensions:
H : 250 - C : 165 - B : 105
Location:
Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels
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