AN 'AMPHORA' EARTHENWARE ‘OWL’ VASE DESIGNED BY EDUARD STELLMACHER

CIRCA 1900-1908, IMPRESSED AMPHORA AND ES IN A TRIANGLE

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AN 'AMPHORA' EARTHENWARE ‘OWL’ VASE DESIGNED BY EDUARD STELLMACHER
CIRCA 1900-1908, IMPRESSED AMPHORA AND ES IN A TRIANGLE
Modelled as an owl perched on an oak branch on a squat globular vase with cylindrical neck
12 7/8 in. (32.7 cm.) high

Lot Essay

Richard L. Scott, Ceramics from the House of Amphora 1890-1915, Ohio, 2004, p. 117 cat. 169 for other examples of this vase. The note to the catalogue entry mentions that it was one of the animal sculptures designed for the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris.

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