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Sea holly

Vase
1896 (manufactured)
Artist/Maker
Royal Copenhagen (manufacturer)
Rode, Gottred Andrew Andersen (painter)
Place of origin
Copenhagen (manufactured)

Porcelain vase of globular body with long cylindrical neck and short foot, decorated with sea holly painted underglaze.

Object details

Categories
Ceramics
Porcelain
Object type
Vase
Titles
  • Sea holly (manufacturer's title)
  • Strandtldsel (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Porcelain with painted decoration in underglaze colours
Porcelain
Glaze
Glazed
Brief description
Vase 'Strandtldsel' (Sea holly), porcelain with painted decoration of sea holly in underglaze colours, made by Royal Copenhagen, painted by Gottred Rode, Denmark, 1896.
Physical description
Porcelain vase of globular body with long cylindrical neck and short foot, decorated with sea holly painted underglaze.
Dimensions
  • Height: 27.3cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • A crown / 'DANMARK' (Printed in green)
  • '601' (Incised)
  • 'M3' / three wavy lines / '5786' / 'GR' in monogram (Painted in underglaze blue)
Gallery label
(24/05/2017)
Label for 'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900', Gallery 101, de-canted March 2017:

'9
Vase
1900

The delicately depicted sea holly on this vase reflects the changing ideas about beauty in nature that occured around 1900. As well as showing the subjects that had traditionally been regarded as beautiful, Art Nouveau artists also found aesthetic satisfaction in new and less likely themes, many inspired by Japanese ceramics. The muted underglaze colours here are typical of Royal Copenhagen.

Denmark; manufactured by the Royal Copenhagen porcelain factory; painted by Gottfred Rode
Porcelain, with underglaze decoration

Museum no. C.1264-1917
Henry L. Florence Bequest'
VASE 'STRANDTIDSEL'

(Sea holly)

Royal Copenhagen

Manufacturer

Painted by Gottfred Rode

(1862-1937)

Denmark (Copenhagen)

1896

Porcelain with painted

decoration in underglaze

colours

C.1264-1917

This vase is a 'unique' piece and, according to factory records, was painted in March 1896 and bought by a Mr Honce of Paris for 75 Danish kroner later that year. The muted colours are typical for Royal Copenhagen; the soft blues and greens are among the few underglaze colours which can withstand the high temperatures necessary to fire the porcelain.

Henry L. Florence Bequest
Credit line
Bequeathed by Henry Louis Florence, Esq.
Object history
This vase is a ‘unique piece’ and, according to factory records, was painted in March in 1896 and bought by Mr. Honce of Pairs for 75 Danish kroner later that year.
Subject depicted
Flowers
Bibliographic reference
Opie, Jennifer Hawkins. Scandinavia: ceramics & glass in the twentieth century. London: V&A Publications, 1989. 35 p. ISBN 1851770712.
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
C.1264-1917

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Record createdSeptember 23, 2008
Record URL
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