New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007

Art Deco Vase

Manufacturer Boch Freres (Belgium, 20th Century)

Designer Charles Catteau

CultureBelgian

Dateca. 1925

MediumFaience in the cloisonné manner

DimensionsOverall: 12 1/4 in. (31.1 cm)

InscribedMarks mainly obliterated in firing. Bottom in black: "Keramis". Catteau's blue mark mostly illegible.

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number87.50

On View

Chrysler Museum of Art, Gallery 220

DescriptionBaluster shaped vase with a white crackle background decorated with a band of flying birds (pelicans?) in blue and yellow. The birds are flying against a turquoise sky. The neck and base of the vase have blue geometric designs.

Label TextVase Belgian, ca. 1925 Faience in the cloisonné manner Designed by Charles Catteau and executed at the Keramis works of Boch Freres. Catteau designed a wide range of ceramics in stoneware as well as in faience. The stylized pelicans seen on this vase and in the deer on the accompanying piece by the same artist were done in cloisonné. Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr. 87.50 Published ReferencesMalcolm Haslam. _Marks and Monograms of the Modern Movement 1875-1930_. New York: Scribner's, 1977, p. 48 for mark.