'DESPONDENCY', A RARE EARTHENWARE VASE

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'DESPONDENCY', A RARE EARTHENWARE VASE
BY ARTUS VAN BRIGGLE, 1902

Of baluster form, finely molded with a muscular nude male figure, his arms, head, and knee forming the rim and his legs flowing into the form, in a sea-green glaze shading to slate blue below, incised with the conjoined-A mark and VAN BRIGGLE 1902 III x
13 3/8in. (34.0cm.) high

Lot Essay

cf. Van Briggle exhibited the Despondency vase at the Paris salon of 1903, where it was awarded a gold medal, and purchased by the Louvre. Van Briggle died in 1904 at the age of 35. See Elaine Levin, The History of American Ceramics, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1988, p. 90 for an illustration of this model.