Description

Monumental floor urn in a deep turquoise glaze with touches of yellow, depicts the myth of ‘Diana and Aktaeon’. In the myth Diana the huntress, hunted by Aktaeon, turns him into a stag whereupon he is attacked and torn apart by his own dogs in a wolf-like frenzy. Jais Nielsen is a well-known Danish artist and sculptor 1885-1961 who designed sculptures and pottery at both Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Factory and Kähler Keramik Factory. This vase in almost unique as there are only a few in existence, one in the Queen’s Palace at Amelienborg, Copenhagen.