Meissen Rose Candleholder designed by Heinrich Vogeler in 1905 as an addition to a toilet service for a ladies room, for his later wife Martha.
This six-piece toilet and the corrsponding candle holder were first presented by Meissen in 1906 at the Third German Decorative Arts Exhibition in Dresden. It is now in the Focke Museum in Bremen.
Vogeler was a co-founder of the Worpswede artists’ colony 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.
Joined Communist Party at young age, emigrated to Soviet Russia in 1931. 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.