Hyperboloid faceted vase

Inventory number: St 562

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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