Lot 2191

Chris Lanooy (1881-1948), 'Juliana vaas' fitted with a patinated bronze mount, the mount with unidentified double struck monogram to the inside, possibly 'OA' or 'AO', the glass vase produced in 1927 by Glasfabriek Leerdam on the occasion of Princess Juliana's 18th birthday. Provenance: Diacones Hendrina Geertruida Tavenier (1888-1984), thence by descent. During World War I Geertruida Tavenier worked as a nurse at the Polish front, for which she received the Iron Cross of Merit. During the World War II, Tavenier joined the Dutch resistance, hiding important equipment such as radios in the basement of the maternity hospital where she worked, employing a Jewish girl after bleaching her hair and providing food for people in hiding. According to the family, Tavenier received this vase personally from Queen Wilhemina as gratitude for her resistance during the war. No other vase with this mount has been found.