This bowl is one of the most famous designs of De Kristalunie in Maastricht. Willem Jacob Rozendaal (1899-1971) designed the bowl in 1937. It was presented for the first time at the spring fair that year and was shown in the accompanying catalogues. The bowl is described in the booklet “Kristalunie Maastricht” by A. van der Kley-Blekxtoon on p. 125 & 126 (Fig. 163 & 164). The bowl was made in fume, gold and clear glass. The star-shaped bowl has 5 rounded corners and from a central flower shape five strands twist counter clockwise to the edge.

Willem Rozendaal started in Haarlem and Rotterdam as a designer of stained glass windows at the Rotterdamse Glashandel. Between 1924 and 1928 he was an artistic designer at the pottery factory De Sphinx in Maastricht. In 1928 he went to the glass factory De Kristalunie to which he remained connected until 1937. In The Hague he then devoted himself to painting and watercolour painting, mainly portraits, still lifes and flowers, in which he also taught. He died in Wassenaar in 1971.

Our object is a signed clear glass bowl with craquelé and luster. Craquelé is caused by a deliberately applied error during glazing. It is caused by the difference in surface tension of the object to be glazed and that of the glaze. This causes cracks in the applied glaze. A luster glaze has also been applied. This is a glaze that causes an oily glow (also called iridescent) by adding metal oxide.

Style: Art Deco. Signed: Maastricht.

Dimensions: 33.5 diameter, 5 high.

140 €