KOK, J. Jurriaan
(b. 1861, Rotterdam, d. 1919, Den Haag)

Two-handled Vase

1903
Glazed porcelain, 30 x 15 x 11 cm
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, Washington

Four-sided base rising to curved wide handles that branch from shoulders and join narrow tubular neck under the rim, with painted decoration of lilies in orange/brown tones.

The vase was produced in the Haagsche Plateelbakkerij Rozenburg, The Hague, Dutch pottery that specialized in eggshell porcelain, developed by Juriaan Kok. The factory was in operation from 1883 to 1916.




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