Null Westerwald Inkwell Henry van de Velde 
Designed in 1902, maker Merkelbach &…
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Westerwald Inkwell Henry van de Velde Designed in 1902, maker Merkelbach & Wick Grenzhausen, model number 2058, light beige stoneware body with polychrome running glaze over red-brown engobe, vessel used as an inkwell with three sculptural struts modelled out, bonnet-like lid, probably first represented at the German National Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1902 for the collective stand of the clay industrialists of the Unterwesterwald district, good, undamaged condition, h 9 cm. Source: Thomas Föhl, Antje Neumann, Henry van de Velde, Raumkunst und Kunsthandwerk, vol. III, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, p. 162, there with illustration.

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Westerwald Inkwell Henry van de Velde Designed in 1902, maker Merkelbach & Wick Grenzhausen, model number 2058, light beige stoneware body with polychrome running glaze over red-brown engobe, vessel used as an inkwell with three sculptural struts modelled out, bonnet-like lid, probably first represented at the German National Art Exhibition in Düsseldorf in 1902 for the collective stand of the clay industrialists of the Unterwesterwald district, good, undamaged condition, h 9 cm. Source: Thomas Föhl, Antje Neumann, Henry van de Velde, Raumkunst und Kunsthandwerk, vol. III, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, p. 162, there with illustration.

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