Orb Vase
Designer Henry van de Velde Belgian
Manufactory Eberstein Manufactory German
Not on view
Art Nouveau ceramics, produced from around 1880 to 1914, the start of World War I, encompassed a variety of different styles and influences, including national historicism, nature, symbolism, and an interest in Japanese culture. The period’s diverse practitioners were driven by the search for new forms that responded to the sweeping social, cultural, economic and artistic changes wrought by industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century and the advent of World War I. Vessel forms designed by the Belgian architect and designer Henry van de Velde, who was active in Germany, demonstrate unexpectedly forward-looking iterations of ceramics emerging out of the Art Nouveau style in Germany, where Jugenstil developed at a parallel moment, influenced by the popular magazine Jugend.
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