Amphora Austria – Riessner, Stellmacher & Kessel – “Fates” Art Nouveau vase 1895 - 1910

Amphora

Ceramic
40 cm, ø 23 cm
ConditionExcellent
€ 7.400

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• About the artwork
  This magnificent vase was manufactured by Amphora from Turn-Teplice which at that time belonged to the Austrian Empire. Amphora is known for the production of high quality decorative porcelain objects in Art Nouveau style and was founded by Riessner, Stellmacher & Kessel in the year 1892.
  
  The vase is made in ivory porcelain and shaped in a typical symbolist Art Nouveau representation. The vase stands on a widened base and has an embossed decoration of sirens, flowers and tadpoles swimming up from the depths in the water to the sirens that are at the surface. The symbolism behind this representation is centered on fertility, transformation and happiness.
  
  The underwater representation is rendered with a slightly iridescent glaze. Whereas the overwater representation is rendered in a green paint with accents in gold paint.
  
  The base has a stamp of “Amphora”.
  
  
  Condition: Excellent condition, production crack at the base
  
  
  Literature:
  Vreeland – Monsters and Maidens – Collector’s Edition. Blz. 186.
• About the artist

  Tile and Fayence factory Amphora in the Dutch municipality Oegstgeest was founded in 1908 . Chris van der Hoef  made a number of important designs around 1908. He made designs with a simple geometric decoration intertwined with lines and color boxes in the so-called Art Nouveau style. The factory was closed in 1933.

  It was founded by Messrs van Sillevoldt and Perelaer. They became known, among other things, for a special glaze that did not or hardly crackle. In the Holland-Rijnland region, lime kilns and pottery factories were established along the Old Rhine, making use of the clay dredged up from the surrounding polders, from which they made bricks, roof tiles and pottery products. After the Rozenburg factory in The Hague went bankrupt, Amphora took over part of the raw material.

  The famous pottery painter Sam Schellink also went to work for Amphora and painted many beautiful eggshell porcelain objects there. The artist Theodorus Verstraaten  also worked for the company. Pieter Groeneveldt and Chris Lebeau received turning lessons from Gerrit de Blanken around 1923.

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