A STAINED METAL JUG, designed by Homme de Vries, globular body with slender spreading neck with spout and loop strap handle, on cylindrical base with flat cylindrical rim, with engraved linear decoration and applied on the shoulder with small decorative nails and with a metal band enamelled in colours with a dot-design, the base with similar enamelled decoration, the body further set with three pale-blue beads held in circular metal decorative supports, with engraved artist's monogram HdV

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A STAINED METAL JUG, designed by Homme de Vries, globular body with slender spreading neck with spout and loop strap handle, on cylindrical base with flat cylindrical rim, with engraved linear decoration and applied on the shoulder with small decorative nails and with a metal band enamelled in colours with a dot-design, the base with similar enamelled decoration, the body further set with three pale-blue beads held in circular metal decorative supports, with engraved artist's monogram HdV
25.8 cm high

Lot Essay

Homme de Vries executed the designs of Jan Eissenloeffel which explains the resemblance his objects bear with those of Eissenloeffel

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