Small Danish Art Nouveau vase by Thorvald Bindesboell for P. Ipsens Enke designed in 1905The vase is in good vintage conditionThorvald Bindesbøll (1846-1908) is was Denmark's leading ornamental artist of his time. His pronounced independence and fierce productivity made Danish handicrafts take a place of it´s own in the great renewal of European decorative arts in the years around 1900.Bindesbøll created his style without much influence from the German Art Nouveau style or the French art nouveau... his style was fully developed before their international breakthrough at the 1900 Paris Exhibition (where he won a gold medal for his design of the Danish exhibition), and he became the spiritual father of the discretionary.