A rare and early Rozenburg earthenware vase designed by Theodoor Colenbrander 1886

painted with an abstract pattern in shades of green, brown and black on a cream ground

Cf. Rozenburg catalogue 1986 p. 110, fig. 8 and catalogue 2007, p. 35, fig. 29 for this model with a different pattern in the collection of The Hague Municipal Museum

In good condition but for some minor crackle to the lower part of the neck.
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pioneer-Rozenburg collector A. van Vollenhoven noted in 1933 that Colenbrander considered this model, with its pomegranate-shaped body, as his best ceramic design, first made in 1884 with use of three instead of the usual two moulds