Vase

A slightly bulging, cylindrical shape with a straight foot and a plain, round top rim. This shape (No. 5282 in the Zsolnay factory Façon book 8) was designed in 1898 and painted in a great number of artistic décor variants. In this case it is painted by Júlia Zsolnay herself, probably in one single copy only. The pattern is created of three different flowery-leafy boughs. The lighter golden-green colours against the dark violet-blue base create sharp contrasts, shaded by the rich colour variants due to reduction-firing. The silky surface creates the image of a garden in twilight.