Covered Vase

Edmund De Waal

2001

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View of fountains in the city of Neisse. On polished steel plate with fine silver frame in original red leather and gilt etui.
Napoleon crossing the Alps over the St. Bernhard pass in 1800.
Large, slightly irregularly shaped, round bowl of reddish earthenware covered with a gray-beige glaze that is unevenly applied and contains numerous glaze flaws, the upper outer and inner rims with a band of blue glaze that flows slightly creating a feather-like edge and is partially covered by a white glaze that drips downward, the edge of the rim and foot left glaze free , the body contains on one side a decorative motif consisting of a triangle with five bluish dots surrounded by white bits of glaze.
Green and white jasper with one of Flaxman's Seasons