DELFT WHITE RIBBED VASE BY MARCEL WANDERS

No blue. No floral motifs. No reference to tradition at all — except in the material. The DELFT WHITE RIBBED VASE BY MARCEL WANDERS is the collection’s most formally radical departure: a wide, generously proportioned white porcelain urn, its entire surface worked with close vertical ribbing that catches light differently at every angle, then interrupted at four equidistant points by large, mirror-polished gold orbs that push outward from the body with deliberate, unapologetic mass.

The contrast is the design. The ribbed white surface is matte, textural, almost classical in its restraint — and the gold orbs are none of those things. Glossy, voluminous, and slightly irregular in their geometry, they read as geological or biological as much as decorative: nodules, pods, forms that appear to have grown from the vessel rather than been attached to it. The result sits comfortably between fine ceramics and contemporary sculpture, between a museum piece and a conversation starter.

Within the Delft Blue Vases of art sculptures for sale collection, this is the outlier that proves the collection’s breadth: Royal Delft’s material mastery — porcelain production uninterrupted since 1653 — applied to a form that owes nothing to the blue-and-white canon. At nearly 15 inches wide and 13 inches tall, it anchors a console, sideboard, or low shelf with genuine sculptural authority.

Specifications:

• Material: Porcelain
• Body Finish: White glaze with all-over vertical ribbing/fluting
• Accent Details: Four large mirror-polished gold spherical orbs
• Decoration: None (form-driven; no cobalt blue pattern)
• Body Form: Wide urn / full-bellied jar silhouette
• Width: 14.6 in (37.1 cm)
• Height: 13 in (33.0 cm)
• Depth: 13.4 in (34.0 cm)
• Use: Vase or decorative sculptural object