Vase

Otto Meier

  • Titles Vase (Descriptive)
  • Artist Otto Meier, German, 1903 - 1996
  • Medium glazed porcelain
  • Dimensions 6 5/8 × 4 3/4 in. Diam. (16.8 × 12.1 cm)
  • Credit Line Collection of the Art Fund, Inc. at the Birmingham Museum of Art; Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Frederick Baekeland, AFI.264.2010
  • Work Type vase
  • Classification Containers

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Small covered urn of solid white jasper with lilac jasper dip and applied green and white jasper relief decoration, resting on square plinth with leafy motifs on the sides, the round foot with overlapping acanthus leaves, the lower body with thickly molded, stylized acanthus leaves, the main body with a small green oval medallion on each side set within a beaded border, on one Aesculapius and Hygeia and on the other a seated classical figure with its head resting on its left hand, the neck fluted and twisted with stiff leaf motifs below the lip, the lip itself decorated with overlapping acanthus leaves, the two handles in the shape of ram's heads, the cover with ball finial.
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