Vase
Roycroft was an artistic community that produced some of the finest furniture, books, lamps, and metalwork of the American Arts & Crafts movement. Committed to the ideals of achieving social reform through honest handcraftsmanship, it became one of the most successful Arts & Crafts enterprises of its day. This vase is a particularly fine example of Roycroft metalwork. Its design relates to a vase known as "American Beauty Vase" that Victor Toothaker designed for Grove Park Inn, a grand resort hotel in Asheville, North Carolina. The visible hammered rivets accenting this vase are characteristic of Victor Toothaker’s designs and epitomize the Arts & Crafts movement’s philosophy of employing functional elements as decorative features.
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