Vase with globe thistles
Designed by Anna Marie Valentien American
Manufacturer Rookwood Pottery Company American
It was in Cincinnati at the Rookwood Pottery that the drive toward more organic, plant-based forms found fruition. Whether it was a result of the general Zeitgeist of 1900 or more specific influences from Europe, some Rookwood artists gradually freed their designs from the constraints of wheel-based forms and painted decoration. The decorator of this vase, Anna Marie Valentien, designed many of Rookwood’s figural works in the early years of the twentieth century. This large vase, with its rigid symmetry and stylized rhythmic natural forms, is more in keeping with earlier modes, while here executed in a relief-molded vase.
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