Vase (1900): Art, History and Details
Vase at the Cleveland Museum of Art: 1900, silver. Explore the work's context, creator attribution and collection history.
Vase (1900) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Thorvald Bindesbøll (Danish, 1846–1908); Anton Michelsen (Danish).
The work and its context
The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:
Bindesboll trained as an architect but is best known as a designer of silver and ceramics. His earliest silver designs were executed by the Copenhagen firm of Michelsen. An artist of considerable originality, Bindesboll was a major figure in the history of modern European design whose work, unfortunately, remains little known outside his native Denmark.
Object facts
- Title: Vase
- Date: 1900
- Creator attribution: Thorvald Bindesbøll (Danish, 1846–1908); Anton Michelsen (Danish)
- Culture: Denmark, Copenhagen
- Type: Silver
- Technique: silver
- Dimensions: Diameter: 16.1 cm (6 5/16 in.); Overall: 20.4 cm (8 1/16 in.)
- Collection: Decorative Arts
- Department: Decorative Art and Design
- Accession number: 2001.94
Collection credit
John L. Severance Fund
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See the museum's photographs and full catalogue entry. Catalogue text is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art's open-access data, with HTML formatting removed. This object and its supplied image are designated CC0.
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