Ivory porcelain vessels are a specialty of the Bohemian Amphora factory Riessner, Stellmacher & Kessel. The so-called portrait vases, featuring depictions of female faces in various contexts, were perfectly in tune with the contemporary taste of French Art Nouveau.
\nThe helmet worn by the female figure on this vase is prominently adorned with the Gallic rooster, the national symbol of France. This distinctive attribute firmly identifies her as an \u2018allegory of France.\u2019 Her magnificent armor is expertly glazed and lavishly embellished with relief-like applications, enhancing the sense of refinement and strength.
\nDesigned by Nikolaus Kannh\u00e4user around 1902-1903, the decoration for the \u2018Allegory of France\u2019 is part of a series that includes allegories of other nations such as Germany, Austria, and Russia. These martial representations can be seen as symbols of the rising European superpowers at the turn of the 20th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Portrait vase “Allegory of France”, design Nikolaus Kannh\u00e4user, manufactured by Amphora-Werke Riessner Stellmacher & Kessel in Turn-Teplitz, ca. 1902, ivory porcelain, marked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":33920,"template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[386],"product_tag":[1720],"class_list":["post-33909","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-art-nouveau","product_tag-amphora-werke-en","first","instock","shipping-taxable","product-type-simple"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/33909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=33909"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=33909"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kolhammer.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=33909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}