a rare pair of Distel earthenware vases designed by Theodoor Nieuwenhuis circa 1914 - 1915

Estimate

14,000 - 16,000 EUR

bidding is closed

Description

both with indistinct inscribed factory mark and designer's monogram
height 31 / 30,5 cm, one neck restored

decorated in 'carduus' technique with a regular pattern of stylised flowering magnolia branches and butterflies in shades of brown, blue and green on a pale cream and turquoise ground

Literature

Cf. Gans 1966, p. 168, fig. 52; Simon Thomas 2001, pp. 50, 51, 107 and 109 for a vase of this model in a different colour scheme

Catalogue Note

see note to lot 8