This Rookwood Decorated Mat/Double Vellum vessel stands 6" high by 7" across the shoulders by 3" at the platform base. It has a very handsome and pleasing form with a clear Asian Aesthetic. It has a broad shoulder and narrow base. It was decorated by Mary Grace Denzler, whose tenure at the Rookwood Pottery was from 1913-1917. This vase is decorated with an elegant Asian-inspired motif, with three cranes in winged flight at the shoulders and diving downward into the bamboos groves below, a Japanesque aesthetic, which lays on this vessel beautifully. It is glazed in a very handsome satin mat black ground, framed in a band of green at the rim and base, and wonderfully colorful accents in the cranes and green bamboo stalks, very detailed. The decoration is exquisite. It has a satin mat finish. This pot is shape number 1848, and it is dated 1916, along with the standard Rookwood cipher on the base. It bears Denzler's initials cipher, a cojoined stylized 'MGD' on the base. This vase is in original factory condition, with an 'x' on the underside, which is clearly due to a pooling of glaze by the lower base edge that covered the edge and the underside requiring grinding to level the base. The glaze on the underside shows a thin line of green on the inner base clay ring, and the side edge on the base edge reveals a bubbled, yet smoothly ground base edge. This handsome Asian-inspired design presents a gorgeous Japanese Aesthetic, and makes a stunning presentation!