Body decorated on one side with a stylised giant squid whose horizontally spread arms describe curves and spirals. The other side is decorated with stylised underwater plants. Foot decorated with a terracotta stripe from which eight small plants emerge, against a mottled ground. Mottled neck decorated with a terracotta stripe.
Material:
Stoneware C
Technique:
Slip-cast form. Pounced underlayer, finished with a matt terracotta glaze on a greenish, whitish and pinkish glazed ground (camaïeu).
Workshop:
Boch. La Louvière
Form number:
1168 & c, impressed
Decoration number:
D.1695 in black
Date:
Design created after 1930
Marks:
Grès - Keramis, impressed / rectangular stamp: she-wolf mark - Keramis - Made in Belgium
Signature :
Ch.Catteau in black
Dimensions:
H : 228 - C : 68 - B : 162
Location:
Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels
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