diameter bowl: circa 32,3 cm / 12.7 inch

height (incl. base): circa 18,1 cm / 7.1 inch

condition: very good, no chips, no cracks, no restoration, 

some slight residu staining towards the bottom

signed with etched Leerdam Lebeau mark

These flower vases were no longer produced after 1930.

Joris Johannes Christiaan Lebeau, was born in 1878 in Amsterdam, his anti-Nazi activities during the German occupation of Holland led to his arrest in 1943 and he died in the concentration camp of Dachau in 1945

Lebeau's first series for Leerdam was designed in 1924, put into production in 1925 and shown at the Paris Exhibition of that year, where the Musée des Arts Décoratifs acquired a large trumpet-shaped vase with separate base, also in green and purple (the vase is unpublished, but for an illustration of the same model, see A. van der Kley-Blekxtoon, 'Leerdam Glas1878-1930', Lochem 1984, 68, pl. 73, centre vase in group). 

Lebeau's vases continued to be shown at exhibitions in Holland and abroad, for example in New York, at the International Exhibition of Contemporary Glass and Rugs, held by the American Federation of Arts in 1929-30. 

Lebeau found Leerdam's existing vase shapes too uniform; he therefore designed unusual shapes for specific flowers and plants, as well as double-sided vases that were usable either way up. His bizarre shapes were not always well received at the time: Karel Wasch in his book 'Glas en Kristal' (Rotterdam 1927) compared them to laboratory glass. 

Yet they were highly original and quite unlike anything else produced at the time in Holland, or indeed elsewhere. Those that were put into production are illustrated in the Leerdam trade catalogue of 1927 (see van der Kley-Blekxtoon 1984, pls 73-9, reproductions of the 1927 illustrations, and pl. 80). 

The Leerdam colour range at the time included the popular bright yellow-green known as 'annagroen', bright orange-red, purple, amber and blue. The mould-blown bowls were made in pear-wood moulds, the pressed bases in iron moulds. A number of Lebeau's original water-colour sketches survive (see M. de Bois, 'Chris Lebeau - ontwerper 1878-1945', exhibition catalogue, Drents Museum, Assen and Frans Halsmuseum, Haarlem, 1987, 171- 7), including designs for items that were never produced. The pieces were executed from working drawings made by the factory's design department. 

For further discussions of manufacturing techniques see de Bois, 174-5. 

Following conflict with Copier and Cochius, Lebeau left Leerdam in 1926 for the factory of Ludwig Moser in Winterberg, Bohemia

More documentation in Modern Glass in Nederland / Modern Glass in the Netherlands, with english texts, by Titus M. Eliens, ISBN 90-400-8671-0, page 63 & 66 text, page 64 & 65 pictures of 3 off these type of vases

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