August Hanke, Vase with two handles, 1901/1902

Designed and executed by the artist and chemist August Hanke, proprietor of the stoneware factory Reinhold Hanke, Höhr. Gray, oxidised 'sang-de-boeuf' glazed stoneware, salt glazed. Serial number 2027 on the base. H. 24 cm. Ton-Industrie-Zeitung, Berlin 1902, ill. p. 1290 (illustrated in: Beate Dry-v. Zezschwitz, ed., R. Merkelbach, Grenzhausen, Special Price-List 1905, Munich 1981, p. 21, pl. 9); Cat. Deutsch-Nationale Kunst-Ausstellung Dusseldorf 1902, p. 126, No. 1786 ('Stoneware vessels, made in Höhr - Grenzhausen'); Die Kunst, Vol.. 8, October issue, Munich 1903, p. 33, ill. as third vase from the left in a row of six vases, with the caption ‚Rhenish stoneware vases – Designed by Henry van de Velde, produced by Reinhold Hanke, Höhr nr. Coblenz; ditto, p. 80, text lower right: 'Correction: Of the stoneware vases illustrated on p. 33 of the October number, only the fourth and sixth were designed by Prof. Henry van de Velde'; Beate Dry-v. Zezschwitz, Westerwälder Steinzeug des Jugendstils, Ph. D. thesis, Munich University 1993, p. 345.

Immaculate condition.