Rozenburg Den Haag
Vase

CultureDutch
Titles
  • Vase
Date1903
PlaceNetherlands
MediumEggshell porcelain
Dimensions16 1/4 × 5 1/4 × 5 1/4 in. (41.3 × 13.3 × 13.3 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase funded by the Decorative Arts Endowment, the Museum Collectors, Mary Anne Phillips in honor of Mrs. Martha Holloman Porus, Cecil and Sharon Griffin, and by exchange, Mrs. W. B. Sharp, Miss Annette Finnigan, and the D'Oyley Art Gallery
Object number2010.1500
Current Location
The Audrey Jones Beck Building
227 Beck Galleries
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DescriptionThis extraordinary vase, made by the Rozenburg factory in Holland, epitomizes the reasons Rozenburg is considered the most exquisite of all Art Nouveau porcelain: a daringly drawn-out shape, impossibly thin body, and extraordinary naturalistic painting. Using a bone-china recipe developed in the 1890s, the factory slip-cast the delicate vessels in a revolving mold in which liquid clay was spun outward by centrifugal force. The process allowed for the handles of vases and spouts of teapots to be formed as one piece with the body rather than being cast separately and added on later. As seen in this rare large example, the resulting forms were attenuated, eccentric, and flamboyant.
Provenance[Proportio Divina, The Netherlands, 2010]; purchased by MFAH, 2010.
Exhibition History"Circa 1900: Decorative Arts at the Turn of the Century," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Alice Pratt Brown Gallery, 26 February - 31 July 2011.

"Modern Dutch Design,"The Wolfsonian, Florida International University, Miami Beach,
November 18, 2016--April 23, 2017
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks
Printed factory mark: "(crown) / Rozenburg / (stork) / den Haag"

Decorator's mark for H.G.A. Huyvenaar in script: "H"

Work order number "924" and painted year code

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