An Art Nouveau Rozenburg egg-shell porcelain solifleur vase

An Art Nouveau Rozenburg egg-shell porcelain solifleur vase, painted by S Schellink, shouldered, square section, painted to one side with a bird perched on a flower stem, the other three sides with orange flowers, in colours on a white ground, printed factory mark, painted marks and artist cipher, 16cm. high

Literature

Dutch Art Nouveau and Art Deco Ceramics 1880-1940, The Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum Collection, page 100 for a comparable example illustrated, the painting attributed to H.G.A Huyvenaar.

Provenance

The collection of Rozenburg came from Peter Rudolf Wolter van Gessler Verschuir, born in Groningen in 1883. He went on to become Governor of Yogyakarta, Java from 1929 to 1932 before returning to the Hague.

Thence by descent .