Vase
Axel Salto Danish
Manufacturer Royal Copenhagen Danish
Not on view
This object represents one of the earliest shifts toward abstraction in ceramic art—the vessel, with its dynamic polyhedron shape covered in buds, defies function. Salto was among the first to expand the vocabulary and artistic potential of form in clay, his work notably predating that of American artists who would begin to experiment with tradition and functionality in the following decade (with the exception of the late nineteenth-century artist, George Ohr).
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