Henry Van de Velde
Vase, 1902
Stoneware, gray ceramic, cast body, cobalt smalt decoration, salt glaze
Made by Reinhold Hanke, Höhr, Germany
Made by Reinhold Hanke, Höhr, Germany
h. 8 2/3 in. (22 cm) - w. 6 2/3 in. (17 cm)
Signed with Van de Velde’s monogram - Model number 2055E
COLLECTION OF THE KUNSTMUSEUM DEN HAAG
COLLECTION OF THE KUNSTMUSEUM DEN HAAG
Provenance
British private collection - Woolley & Wallis, Salisbury, UK, 1st June 2007, lot 853 - Collection of Jürgen Schimanski, Germany, acquired at the above sale, until 2020.
Exhibitions
An identical vase was presented in the German section at the 1904 International Exhibition in Saint Louis, MO. Given the fact that only three of the sixteen vases listed above are gray with cobalt-blue decoration (Westerwald, Teemuseum and Oscar Graf Gallery), there is a possibility that the vase offered here was the example shown in 1904.