This design is called "Moonwort" or "Honesty". Five stylised stems of honesty are distributed over the shoulder. The five stems reach down to the foot, which is finished with superimposed layers of fine green and dark brown glazes, imitating grass.
Material:
Stoneware
Technique:
Slip-cast form. Stencilled decoration of matt mottled brown-beige glazes on a dark brown ground. Foot finished with superimposed matt glazes applied with a brush. Inside of the neck glazed a greenish blue. Contours applied with a brush.
Workshop:
Boch. La Louvière
Form number:
899, impressed
Decoration number:
D 652 & D, impressed
Date:
Created in 1920, still in production in 1940
Marks:
Grès - Kéramis, impressed
Dimensions:
H : 250 - C : 77 - B : 103
Location:
Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels
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