Vase

This extraordinary vase, made by the Rozenburg factory in Holland, epitomizes the reasons Rozenburg is considered the most exquisite of all Art Nouveau porcelain: a daringly drawn-out shape, impossibly thin body, and extraordinary naturalistic painting. Using a bone-china recipe developed in the 1890s, the factory slip-cast the delicate vessels in a revolving mold in which liquid clay was spun outward by centrifugal force. The process allowed for the handles of vases and spouts of teapots to be formed as one piece with the body rather than being cast separately and added on later. As seen in this rare large example, the resulting forms were attenuated, eccentric, and flamboyant.