Limited Edition Vase Elisa

In his role both as an artist and modeller-in-chief, Jörg Danielczyk (*1952) has had a seminal influence on Meissen's formal vocabulary over the past several decades with large-format sculptures such as his "Swan" or "Bald Eagle", the latter commissioned for the foyer of the US embassy in Berlin. His supreme achievement was undoubtedly "Saxonia", the largest free-standing porcelain statue in the world, which he created to mark the Manufactory's tercentenary.
His wide-ranging experience in the sphere of statuary and figural works has now enabled him to produce this double vase series. Their shape - asymmetrical, dynamic and hence wholly untypical for a vase - is inspired by natural forms of movement such as those of the waves and wind. The unusual decorative scheme echoes and underscores this collective momentum with colourful little mosaics and geometrical shapes.
Danielczyk immortalises a memory from his childhood in his scheme for the vases, that of a kaleidoscope with which the artist loved playing as a little boy and which even stimulated him to make one of his own. Rotating the vase seemingly causes the tiny panels of intense colour to generate ever-changing configurations of spell-binding images just like the crystals in a kaleidoscope.