A large earthenware four-handled vase designed by Willem Brouwer 1909

with four applied handles, the neck carved with linear motifs, glazed in green and black on a blue stream glaze ground 

illustrated in Leidelmeijer 1983, p. 81, fig. 75 (actual piece)

Cf. Boijmans ceramics catalogue, p. 156, cat. no. 33, fig. 36; Ebbinge 1980, p. 46, fig. 75

In good condition.
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this vase clearly shows Brouwer's great interest in Chinese works of art, both model and decoration resembling a Chinese bronze vessel