Roses in a white bowl

With heavy pink and white roses, a spherical white porcelain bowl, and a goldglaze-trimmed white porcelain coffee pot, this group of convex-shaped objects is joined together visually by the horizontal oval mirror in a gilded frame. Light and bright colours, reflections, cleanliness and light are typical of a room belonging to the average European town dweller at the beginning of the 20th century. Moderately comfortable luxury like this can easily be imagined in the artist’s house in Vilnius, in the housing development by Juozapas Montvila at Lukiškės. It is possible that the roses were from the rose bushes growing in the narrow garden in front of the house. The Art Nouveau terraced house of Stanisław Jarocki (1872–1944) was and still is distinguished from the other houses in the row by the weather vane in the shape of a winged Hussar. Darius Pocevičius devotes quite a  long passage to the weather vane in his book about relics in Vilnius, and pays much attention to the first owner of the house, briefly describing his self-portrait as being typical of a successful professional (D. Pocevičius, 100 istorinių Vilniaus reliktų nuo XIV a. iki 1944 m., Vilnius, 2016, pp. 540–548).

Text author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album OBJECTS ON SHOW (2017). Compiler and author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė

With heavy pink and white roses, a spherical white porcelain bowl, and a goldglaze-trimmed white porcelain coffee pot, this group of convex-shaped objects is joined together visually by the horizontal oval mirror in a gilded frame. Light and bright colours, reflections, cleanliness and light are typical of a room belonging to the average European town dweller at the beginning of the 20th century. Moderately comfortable luxury like this can easily be imagined in the artist’s house in Vilnius, in the housing development by Juozapas Montvila at Lukiškės. It is possible that the roses were from the rose bushes growing in the narrow garden in front of the house. The Art Nouveau terraced house of Stanisław Jarocki (1872–1944) was and still is distinguished from the other houses in the row by the weather vane in the shape of a winged Hussar. Darius Pocevičius devotes quite a  long passage to the weather vane in his book about relics in Vilnius, and pays much attention to the first owner of the house, briefly describing his self-portrait as being typical of a successful professional (D. Pocevičius, 100 istorinių Vilniaus reliktų nuo XIV a. iki 1944 m., Vilnius, 2016, pp. 540–548).

Text author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė

Source: Law firm Valiunas Ellex art album OBJECTS ON SHOW (2017). Compiler and author Giedrė Jankevičiūtė