Amphora Art Nouveau Pottery

This video is inhabited by some of the fantastical creatures and captivating women that inspired Dr. Byron Vreeland, the eminent Amphora scholar and collector, to entitle his book “Monsters Maidens: Amphora Pottery of the Art Nouveau Era.“ Yet these monsters and maidens only provide a glimpse into the expansive imagination and technical ability of Amphora, the Bohemian ceramics manufactory also known as Riessner, Stellmacher Kessel (RStK). Enthralling videos could be made of Amphora’s “Klimt“ series of vases that evoke, or quite possibly foreshadow, design idioms employed by Gustav Klimt, and of the “EDDA“ series of vases with glaze dripping from the top, forming handles that resemble candle wax or icicles. Many collectors prize Amphora’s sculpted figures, such as the swirling twenty inch statue of modern dance pioneer Loie Fuller, an American that swept Paris off its feet at the turn of the 20th century. See more Amphora at