AN ‘AMPHORA’ EARTHENWARE ‘EXOTIC FISH’ VASE DESIGNED BY EDUARD STELLMACHER
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AN ‘AMPHORA’ EARTHENWARE ‘EXOTIC FISH’ VASE DESIGNED BY EDUARD STELLMACHER

CIRCA 1900-1904, INCISED MONOGRAM, IMPRESSED AMPHORA AND 4112/3

Closed15 December 2015

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AN ‘AMPHORA’ EARTHENWARE ‘EXOTIC FISH’ VASE DESIGNED BY EDUARD STELLMACHER
CIRCA 1900-1904, INCISED MONOGRAM, IMPRESSED AMPHORA AND 4112/3
The iridescent body applied with a fish amongst seaweed
10 ½ in. (26.7 cm.) high

Specialist note

Richard L. Scott, Ceramics from the House of Amphora 1890-1915, Ohio, 2004, p. 98 cat. 129 and 130 for two others. The fish was inspired by a lithograph, published in 1895 by Gerlach & Schenk, Vienna, illustrated in Scott's book, p. 99 cat. 131 (Bell Collection, Cat. No. 9986) and was shown at the Turin Exhibition of 1902.