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BT014

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Monumental exotic Belgian porcelain covered jar or urn c. early to mid 1900s has so many fine features we really don't know where to start. Made by Boch Freres, a well known Belgian ceramic maker, this covered urn or jar (ginger jar?) is in a pattern called Vieux Rhodes which has matching dinnerware if you are lucky enough to ever find it. The size of the piece struck us first, standing a full 16.0" high and 9.0" in diameter at the widest point; the opening without the top cover is approximately 4.5". We love the rich, vibrant colors and the exotic landscape of colorful flowers, ferns, a peacock, birds flying overhead, and the dog perched on top of the covered jar adds that final bit of unique flair. The jar has subtle ridges which we find a lot more interesting than smooth vessels of this shape because the little indents help catch light and make the porcelain surface really shimmer. The interior of the porcelain has a subtle blue shade to it, and we believe this to be polychromed Delftware. It's fully and properly marked on the bottom with the Vieux Rhodes Boch "Handworked" mark, and it's in excellent condition and part of a major Greenwich, CT estate collection of antique ceramics; cross listed on Porcelain 1.

$325.00