KERAMIS - BELGIUM Polychrome glazed ceramic inkwell with asymmetrical quadrangular body and canted with four open compartments and one closed one closed. Decorated with a hummingbird on a brown and background. Signed with the maker's stamp and numbered 1130 for the decoration (tiny chips). Height 16 cm - length 24 cm - depth 11 cm Bibliography: Marc Pairon, Art Deco Ceramics made in Belgium Charles Catteau, Charles Catteau Foundation, Aartselaar, 2006, decor referenced p. 671 and reproduced on other shapes pp. 372-373.

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