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a green vase with white flowers on it's sides and leaves in the middle

Welcome to the Yousef Jameel Online Centre, making the Eastern Art collections at the Ashmolean Musem available online. Discover art from the Islamic Middle East, China, Japan, Southeast Asia, India, and the Himalayas.

a green vase sitting on top of a white table

Austrian ceramist Paul Dachsel designed this unusually shaped pitcher (~1900), made of hard earthenware and covered in a light green glaze. Its slim and elongated body gives the piece an elegant look, accentuated by a highly stylized handle that evokes flying buttresses from medieval cathedrals. The vase’s spout similarly recalls the shape of a gutter. This architectural piece recalls other similar pieces from Dachsel that play on the design of handles, thus giving each object an aerial…

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