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Posted 6 months ago
vetraio50
(358 items)
Some months ago now I saw this vase at one of my regular Vinnies shops in a posh (up-market) area of Sydney. The asking price was astronomical. I spoke to the people there a months later and asked if they would accept an offer that I even thought was high. I offered them what they would have gotten on ebay but they declined my offer. I waited another two months and saw that it had been substantially reduced. The price was forty dollars less than what I had earlier offered. On this occasion it had me paid to wait. Festina lente!
These Danish Skønvirke pieces are increasingly better appreciated. The most popular make for this type of ware is HAK or Herman Kahler. An alternative is DANICO and the two are often confused.
Danico was a company set up a potter and a businessman in the post World War I period (1919-1929).
Niels Peter Nielsen already had a pottery in the pre-war period in a town near Horsens called Egebjerg. After the war he set up a new business with financial backing of a store owner in Horsens called Corfitzen. Their new pottery included Danmark, Nielsen and Corfitzen in its name “DANICO”. This company produced fine wares in the Skønvirke style, the Danish form of Jugendstil.
The early artistic leader was Eiler Løndal from 1919 to 1922. Danico pieces are usually marked with an impressed stamp and number as in the case of this vase it is the design number 18. I have not found this vase in the catalogue online here:
http://danicodk.wordpress.com/katalog/
Two potters Karl Hansen and Frederik Jørgensen were employed from the Herman A. Kähler factory and they brought with them some of the Kähler techniques, including “horn painting”. The horn painting was a difficult technique: a hollowed cow horn, with a goose quill, was filled up with slip, a new horn for each color. The decorator then painted onto the vase with the horn by laying on the slip through the goose quill using it as a pen.
Height 20 cm or 7.87"
Diameter 14 cm or 5.5"
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Many thanks kerry, mustangtony and bratjdd!
Looooooove it!....:-)
Many thanks inky!
Many thanks Marty!
stunning vase and very beautiful . wow i love it :)
Thanks Lisa-lighting!
Thanks Sean, hope you're feeling better today!
Very nice vase, beautiful.
Many thanks musikchoo, pawls, czechman and thank you too for that kind comment Phil!
Hello Kevin,
What a lovely piece. It brought Kahler to mind the second I saw it, but the design seemed a bit different. I love this, the color and design, the over-all shape, and the beautiful bottom.
Thanks for the information about it.
Happy Holidays to you and yours,
Tonino
Many thanks and seasons greetings to you and yours Tonino!
your very welcome vetraio50 , yes im feeling better :)
thankyou :)
Glad to here, you're feeling better, One step at a time. :-)
thankyou very much kerry10456:)
Beautiful ! PS our mutual friends spoke yesterday at SOH I received a note :-)
Hey, well done. Thanks for the love too, Mani!
Many thanks Pawls!
WOW I studied this for a long time! The colors look almost 3-D! It is soooo pretty! I am glad you waited to buy! But it must have been hard to do!
Many thanks toracat! It looks like calligraphy in a way. Very stylised chrysanthemums. Other factories did tube lining and did in-fills of colour - Moorcroft, De Koninklijke Porceleyne Fles etc. These guys had different coloured slips and used them as the basis of their decor. Herman Kähler also did this type of work and is supposed to be of better quality than the Danico firm. I believe this one is the equal of any of their work.
God what a beautiful vase!
Many thanks for your kind comments stillwaters!
Many thanks Manikin!
Many thanks Pawls!
Many thanks Amber!
Many thanks Maggadora! Takk fyrir!
Many thanks nldionne and AmphoraPottery too!