Model Numbers: U 192, U 194
Meissen hat pin tray and a box with roses from a toilet service for a ladies room, designed by Heinrich Vogeler in 1905 for his later wife Martha.
This six-piece toilet set was first presented in 1906 at the Third German Decorative Arts Exhibition in Dresden. It was part of the interior of a “young woman’s room” designed and presented by Vogeler, which is now in the Focke Museum in Bremen. A year earlier, Heinrich Vogeler (1872 – 1942) had the porcelain ensemble formed by the Meissen manufactory, which was included in 1906 was supplemented with the design of a corresponding candlestick. Meissen later acquired Vogeler’s sketches and exhibited the set at their Stuttgart exhibition in 1907.
Vogeler was a co-founder of the Worpswede artists’ colony and is considered one of the most important artists of German Art Nouveau. His diverse works of art include prints, illustrations, paintings, a variety of designs for porcelain, silver, furniture, wallpaper and silk fabrics.
He joined Communist Party at young age and in 1931 emigrated to Soviet Russia. After the German invasion of the Soviet Union he along with other German citizens was deported in 1941 to Kazakhstan by the Soviet authorities, and died there in 1942.