Willem Brouwer Dutch Art Nouveau / Arts & Crafts Pottery Vase c. 1905 More Information
Willem Brouwer Dutch Art Nouveau / Arts & Crafts Pottery Vase c. 1905
WILLEM COENRAAD BROUWER (1877-1933) The Netherlands
POTTERIJ VREDELUST Leiderdorp, The Netherlands
Vase with handles c. 1905
Brown glazed red clay with tan light brown cut out overlaid and sgraffito decoration in a stylized organic motif, two applied looping handles
Marks: Brouwer 139 (incised)
For similar work see: Dutch Decorative Arts 1880-1940, eds. Titus M. Eliëns, Marjan Groot, Frans Leidelmeijer (New York: Battledore Ltd.,1997),p. 56; Leven in een verzameling: Toegepaste kunst 1890-1940 uit de collectie Meentwijck (Laren: Singer Museum, 2000), illus. 76, 77, p. 74.
For more information on Brouwer see: Art Nouveau en Art Deco in Nederland: verzamelobjecten uit de vernieuwingen in de kunstnijverheid van 1890 tot 1940, Frans Leidelmeijer and Daan van der Cingel (city unknown: Meulenhoff/ Landshoff, 1983), pp. 80-82.
Bilder aus Karlsbad, Wiener Werkstaette, c.1910 Wiener Werkstaette brass bound book “Bilder Aus Karlsbad”, art nouveau brass embossed front and back panels decorated with stylized flowers and scrolling branches by Josef Hoffmann, containing twenty lithographic prints from Wiener Werkstatte postcard designs, depicting views of Karlsbad after various artists including Karl Schwetz, Leopold Dreksler and others, the inside front cover edge inscribed “Wiener Werkstatte” (an example of this booklet is held by the University of Applied Arts in Vienna) circa 1910
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