Rozenburg Den Haag
Vase

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ManufacturerManufactured by Rozenburg Den Haag (Dutch, active 1883–1917)Dutch, active 1883–1917

ArtistDecorated by H. G. A. Huyvenaar (Dutch, active 1899–1912)Dutch, active 1899–1912

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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Department

Decorative Arts, Craft, and Design

Special Collections

Annette Finnigan Collection of Early European Decorative Arts

Object Type

CERAMICS

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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