More from the Ceramic Art Exhibit

Here are a few more exhibit items from a ceramic art gallery in Dubuque Iowa featuring art nouveau nature themed designs. This design features a crane with some interesting seed pod looking things on the outer edges. I wish I had taken a picture of this one's label.

Here is a little clock case designed by Peter Kofoed in 1901. It kind of reminds of the the little gnome critters in the movie phantasm.

Here is a fancy looking pelican. I think this might be a gravy boat, but this thing is way too fancy to actually use for gravy.

Here is a peacock vase designed by Erik Nielsen in 1899. It has a nice subtle blue-gray gradient that runs into white. I have no idea how they could possibly get such an even tone.

This is a vase with stylized grebes and pansies. This was designed in 1893 by Gerhard Heilmann who was an artist who illustrated birds back then and even illustrated a textbook called The Origin of Birds.

Here is a monkey vase that has three different monkey expressions on each side. I think this one is the confused or sad expression side.

This plate features turtles and snails and was designed in 1896 by Stephen Ussing.

This one had one of the more surprising pattern. At first glance I didn't see the butterflies. Functionally this is a ginger jar and it was designed by Oluf Jensen in 1891.

This teapot features some gold plating and white flowers over a nice cobalt blue finish. This is almost a perfect color combination in my opinion.

In the 1900s a chemist at Royal Copenhagen developed new underglazes. This vase is one of the first examples of the new underglaze process designed by Valdemar Engelhardt in 1905.

This is another example of new underglazing finishes developed at the turn of the century. These two vases were the least illustrative of all the exhibits at the gallery. Most of the other examples were nature themed and illustrative rather than abstract material features like this.