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French Art Nouveau Ceramics An illustrated Dictionary Paul Arthur Couverture_CeramiqueAN.indd 2 02/04/14 15:43 CONTENTS 6 xx Art nouveau and ceramics xx French ceramic schools Atelier d’Auteuil and Vaugirard Beauvais School of Carriès Limoges School of Nancy Paris Sèvres and the Manufacture nationale de porcelaine School of Massier xx The end of an age xx Artists, ceramists and ateliers xxx Unidentified ceramics and ceramists xxx Accessories xxx Signatures, monograms and symbols xxx Glossary Bibliography Index Photo credits Acknowledgments xxx xxx xxx xxx 001_009_Ceramics_pagesdetete.indd 4-5 Introduction 03/01/15 15:25 ART NOUVEAU AND CERAMICS Opposite: Edouard Dantan, Un atelier de tourneur (1883), painting depicting Haviland’s workshop at Auteuil in Paris. Bayerische Staatsgemaeldesammlungen. See de Juvigny, 2002. (Eidelberg 1994, 94). However, such innovative American ceramics, which included the use of a new matte glaze, won the Grueby Faience Company of Boston a number of prizes at the 1900 Paris World Fair, as well as commissions from Tiffany himself.Various American ceramists also spent time researching in Europe, most notably Artus Van Briggle who sojourned in Paris from 1893 to 1896, studying at the Académie Julian and the École des Beaux Arts, his stay being subsidised by Rookwood Pottery (Eidelberg 1994, 89, 103–4). Some French ceramic artists similarly worked abroad, or even emigrated, while others were clearly inspired by their travels. During a trip to Italy, the famed Côte D’Azur potter Clément Massier appears to have been particularly moved by Cantagalli’s lustreware, which imitated HispanoMoresque ceramics. Ulisse Cantagalli himself had inherited a Fiorentine ceramic tradition and had learnt from his own trip to England, where he had befriended the doyen of the arts and crafts movement, William Morris (1834–96) (Maldini, Tacchella 1999; Benzi 2001). Morris’s friend William de Morgan, the noted English ceramist, spent some time during the 1880s researching lustrewares at Cantagalli, as well as producing ceramics and tiles in the Iznik tradition. Later, Jacques Sicard exported the Massier technique of lustreware to the American factory of Weller, becoming one of its leading designers. The ceramic artists Marc-Louis “Miles” Solon and León Arnoux worked at the Minton potteries in Staffordshire, England, before returning to France, while Solon’s son moved from England to the United States, to work at the American Encaustic Tiling Company. Paul Follot, Marcel Goupy and Émile Aubert Lessore all provided models for Wedgwood, and the last even spent some time working at the firm. A number of French artists escaped to England as refugees following the Franco–Prussian War and the defeat of the Paris Commune in 1871. These included both Aimé Jules Dalou and Jean-Charles Cazin, both known for their ceramic work. Despite what must have been a heady artistic environment with a fair amount of technical and stylistic cross-fertilisation, the somewhat eclectic French art nouveau ceramics nonetheless retain distinctive characteristics that could only reasonably be confused with certain Belgian products and a limited amount of Austrian, Bohemian or English wares. Some of Ernst Wahliss’s (1836–1900) splendid pieces of porcelain from Turn-Teplitz, for instance, are decorated with female figures that may be likened as much to French aethereal female figures as to Alphonse Mucha’s famous ladies. One of his vide-poches of a maiden among water lilies, with examples produced in different colours, is from the identical model as one in bronze signed by the French sculptor Raoul Larche. The Austrian firm of Amphora produced a slightly modified copy of a terracotta jug with frogs in a pond produced by Saunier-Graindorge which, in turn, perhaps followed a bronze original. Sarreguemines imitated a Guimard humidor, whilst Rambervillers not only copied a Guimard bell-push, but also the figurine of a bloodhound puppy originally designed by the German artist Ludwig Habich (1872–1942), a founder of the Darmstadt artists colony, and produced by the atelier of Jakob Julius Scharvogel (1854–1938) who exhibited at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1900. Curiously, the same figurine was also copied by Artus Van Briggle in the United States.Van Briggle, who had spent time in France, appears to have selected various European ceramics as models, including pieces by Baudin and, perhaps, Bruyas. The problem of copying led some firms to mark their products with the words reproduction interdite or deposé. Some Polish ceramic artists, such as Waclaw Bebnowski or Stanislaw Jagmin, were also struck by the novelty of French art nouveau (Glowacki 1972; Kostuch 2001). Jagmin produced lead glazes that appear to be a cross between those of Dalpayrat and some of the works of Lion, as well as providing Mougin with a model, while a vase by Bebnowski is almost identical to one by Dalpayrat. Johann von Schwartz of Nurnberg created a number of excellent ceramics in a very Frenchified style, while Wilhelm Schiller and Sohn appear to have produced a vase inspired by Delaherche’s gourds which even reproduced, in ceramic, the silver mounts by Lucien Bonvallet. Products of the eclectic Hungarian manufacture of Zsolnay may also be likened to some French forms and decorative styles, particularly some work of the Massiers, from which they appear to have taken the lead. However, French ceramics usually have none of the characteristics of the more severe Austrian Secession and have little to do with much of the German Jugendstil, Dutch Gouda designs, or what the Italians called stile liberty. All countries, nonetheless, gave birth to skilled and imaginative artists, all of whom produced magnificent works in their own right. 18 8 010_027_AN_and_Cermics-LP.indd 18-19 03/01/15 15:26 BIGOT BING Duncan 1998, 51–59; Makus et al. 1998, 81–82; Lajoix 2000; Strobel & Pinta 2002, 6–7; for his furniture see Duncan 1996, 78, 80; Dietrich 1977; Dietrich 1982) Bigot, Raymond Pierre (Orbec, Calvados 1872 – Équemauville, Calvados 1953) The younger brother of Alexandre Bigot, Raymond was an animalist sculptor who worked largely in wood, as well as a painter of watercolours. He exhibited two grès figures of “Le Hibou” and “La Buse”, made in collaboration with his brother, at the SNBA in 1904. He also appears to have modelled other animal figures produced in grès, as “deux grès flammés d’une habile exécution” were exhibited at the Deuxième Exposition des Artistes Animaliers in 1914 (L’Art et les Artistes XVIII, 1914, 285).The two brothers also collaborated in the manufacture of furniture. (de la Grenille 1904, 63; Duncan 1996, 78, 80) Bigot, small grès plate with a silver salamander and lilies by Fredy Stoll. Diam. 10.2cm. The same model was also designed with a frog. Private coll. Binet, Amedée Louis (b. Paris around 1860) Russian Orthodox church in Nice. He further collaborated with such noted architects as Anatole de Baudot, Bocage, Ruprich-Robert and Henri Van de Velde. Sculptural products, including tiles and vases, were designed by A. Boucher, Louis Bigaux, Alexandre Charpentier, P.-U. Courcoux (a stove exhibited at the 1906 SNBA), S. Garnier (fireplace), Jean-Marie-Joseph Magrou (fireplace), A. Mulot, Mlle Thiollier, and the animalist sculptors Paul Jouve, Annie Avog, René Alfred Bouclet and Jean André d’Houdain, among others. A famous animal frieze for the monumental entrance to the 1900 Exposition Universelle, for instance, was designed by Jouve and edited by Bigot, also in smaller versions. A particularly attractive series of platters, modelled by Pierre Roche, depict frogs, tadpoles, fish or salamanders emerging from ponds of accumulated glaze. He also produced masks and figurines by FixMasseau. Some signed pieces of grès appear to have been designed by a certain H. Gutton in Paris. Bigot’s output of vases was also substantial, usually consisting of monochrome grès flammés with plain Japoniste forms, though sometimes moulded with art nouveau floral decoration. He further attempted crystalline glazes. Bigot also designed a limited amount of furniture, collaborating with his brother Raymond. Bronze, 028_114_Ceramics_A-C-LP.indd 58-59 gilt and pewter mounts for his ceramics were designed by Edouard Colonna and Maurice Dufrêne, respectively for sale in Bing and MeierGraefe’s galleries, as well as by Armand Gross and by Fredy Stoll (1869–1949). Others were manufactured specifically for mounting and sale by Saglier (see also “Blache”). Some of Bigot’s products, particularly the architectural ones, have the impressed stamp “GRES de BIGOT” accompanied by a tower motif. Others are commonly stamped with the signature “ABigot”. By 1913 the name of the firm is recorded as Bigot, Daligault & Cie. By the end of the year, with Camille Alaphilippe as director, the firm had become Bigot, Bouclet, Fritsch-Lang et Cie. The partner René Bouclet, a sculptor from Mer who had exhibited at the SNBA (1906, 1908), had been the director of the firm and was a nephew of Bigot, while Marcel Fritsch-Lang was listed as a designer for Gentil et Bourdet during the 1911 Turin exhibition. The following year, perhaps because of difficulties due to the First World War, Bigot and company sold the firm to an old friend and collaborator, the architect Jules Hardion from Tours, who established the Sociéte Anonyme des Grès de la Beauce. (Bigot 1900; Makus 1981, 42–48; Becquart et al. 1986, 36–37; Heller 1986, 66–67; Chaudun & Chaudun 1998; A pupil of Levasseur, he exhibited green glazed grès with moulded figural decoration at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in 1900, while two of his vases were also displayed at the SAF in 1901. (Sanchez 2005, 147; Millon 2007, lot 70) Binet, Victor Jean Baptiste Barthélémy (Rouen 1849 – Saint-Quentin-surQuillebeuf 1924) A decorative and landscape painter who studied with Constant Troyon and apparently modelled and painted some porcelain vases at Sèvres. He was awarded a gold medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle. (Pelichet 1976, 111; Duncan 1998, 391) Siegfried Bing (on the left), Louis Gonse, Mme Roujon, Emmanuel Gonse and Mme Gonse at Midori-no-sato, 1899. Musée Le Vergeur, Société des Amis du Vieux Reims, Archives Hugues Krafft. In 1904 he took over his father’s business, and the following year organised Paul Jouve’s first exhibition. Marcel donated a number of ceramics and other items commissioned for the gallery to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in October 1908.The firm passed to his partner René Hasse upon his early death. (Duncan 1999, 94;Weisberg, Becker & Possémé 2004, 30–31) Bing, Siegfried “Samuel” (Hamburg 1838 – Vaucresson 1905) Bing, Lucien Marcel (Paris 1875–1920) Son of Siegfried Bing, jeweller, collector and patron of artists. He himself produced silver and bronze mounts for various ceramic works sold through his father’s gallery, including pieces by Eugène Baudin, Dalpayrat, Simmen, and apparently also for some grès vases marked “Blache”. Collector, gallery owner, connoisseur and art patron of German origin. He was instrumental both in spreading interest in Japonisme within French art circles and in promoting the new pan-European art style. Bing arrived in Paris in 1854 to run his father’s porcelain firm at 12 Rue Martel, just off Rue de Paradis. In 1863 he joined forces with Jean-Baptiste Ernest Leullier, whose porcelain firm was based at Charenton, to create the atelier of Leullier fils et Bing. Following his voluntary exile to Brussels during the Franco–Prussian war, he returned to France and gained citizenship in 1876, changing his name to Samuel. In 1875 Leullier began importing items from China and Japan to sell in Paris. In 1880 Bing himself visited Japan, so as to organise exportation of objects, leaving his brother-in-law Auguste at the receiving end in Paris. In 1888 he founded the magazine Le Japon Artistique, Documents d’Art et d’industrie, and in 1895 he opened the doors of his gallery L’Art Nouveau at 22 Rue de Provence, Paris. Apart from his interest in all forms of the decorative arts, he added to the success of leading French ceramists such as Bigot, Massier and Dalpayrat, both by stocking prime examples of their work and by exhibiting them abroad, selling to collectors and museums. Georges de Feure and Edouard Colonna were his main designers, realising, among other things, 58 59 8 8 Grès ‘brick’ of the freize of Darius by Émile Muller & Cie, signed by both Muller and Samuel Bing. H. 30.5cm. Bing presumably sold the hollowed bricks as vases. Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. 03/01/15 15:26 CLAUDET COCHET Musée Max Claudet, dedicated to his father’s work, at Salins-les-Bains. (Makus et al. 1998, 84; Sanchez 2005, 337–38, where most of his work is confused with that of his father.) Claudet, Julie (b. Salins) Wife of the sculptor Max Claudet and mother of Georges “Max” Claudet. She worked at Salins-lesBains, producing some painted relief-decorated majolica, sometimes in néo-Palissyste style, with the painted signature “J. Claudet”. Later she often collaborated with her son in the production of grès. (Sanchez 2005, 338) Claudet, Max (Fécamp 1840 – Salins 1893) A sculptor, painter and néo-Palissyste ceramic artist, student of Joseph Perraud in Paris, who travelled in Italy and North Africa. From a family of ceramists, he learnt his craft at Nans-sous-Sainte-Anne. Claudet exhibited extensively at the SAF, and produced a number of terracotta portrait sculptures and polychrome-painted faience wall plates and plaques with landscapes and figural scenes, particularly of the Jura region, of children and of subjects from Greek mythology. Some of his plaques were modelled after the works of François Boucher (1703–70). He worked principally at Salins-les-Bains, where he fired his pieces in the kilns of the Capucine monks from 1882. He signed his work “Max Claudet” à la pointe. (Sanchez 2005, 337–38) Clésinger, Jean Baptiste Auguste (Besançon 1814 – Paris 1883) A sculptor and painter, son-in-law of George Sand. He worked in Paris and provided a model entitled RIEN!! of an owl standing upon a skull, which Alexandre Bigot edited in grès.The piece was exhibited at the Exposition Universelle of 1900. (Duncan 1998, 12; Tajan 2007, 32–33, lot 114) Claudin, Pierre Roger (1877–1936) Cochet, Gérard (Avranches 1888 – Paris 1969) The painter Claudin, native of Lorraine, collaborated with the Société Céramique de Rambervillers, where he produced his famous Chimère vase in grès flammé, among other items. (Bertrand 1997, 111) A figurative painter known for his oils, Cochet decorated and signed some vases produced by Jacques Lachenal’s “Blessés de guerre” atelier, having lost an eye during the First World War. These were mainly of painted nude bathing women on a largely white ground in the Impressionist tradition. Painted Sèvres porcelain from a later period shows that Cochet worked well into the 1920s. He signed his works with the signature either “COCHET” or with the abbreviation “G.C.” alongside the Lachenal mark. Clément, Georges Clément owned the Manufacture de Porcelaines et Faïences d’Art at Thiais from 1900 or even earlier, and is still recorded there in 1930. 028_114_Ceramics_A-C-LP.indd 108-109 Max Claudet, “Oedipus and the Sphinx” faience wall plate, recalling a painting by Ingres, marked “1886” and “Salon 1887”. Diam. 72cm. Private coll. Cochet, faience vase, edited by Jacques Lachenal. H 37.5cm. Paris, Les Arts Décoratifs. Clésinger, grès figure of an owl on a skull, edited by Alexandre Bigot. H. 15cm. Courtesy Millon. 108 109 8 8 03/01/15 15:27 DUJARDIN-BEAUMETZ model realised in grès by Dalpayrat, with silver mounts by Bonvallet for Cardeilhac. La Maison Moderne closed down in 1904 and Dufrêne became an independent designer. Along with his acolytes, Dufrêne collaborated with the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres between 1913 and 1922. He later designed art deco ceramics, particularly as director of the “La Maitrise” atelier for Les Galeries Lafayette from 1921.They were produced by Boch Frères in Belgium, where Dufrêne had worked in 1923, as well as by his old collaborator Louis Lourioux. His pieces often bear painted or incised signatures. (Pelichet 1976, 83;Waddell 1977, 114; Makus 1981, 88; Lefébvre & Thomas 1991, 111–12; Haslam 1995, 100; Makus et al. 1998, 50; Sanchez 2005, 502–3) Dujardin-Beaumetz, Henri Charles Étienne (Passy, nr. Paris 1852 – La Bezole 1913) A figural painter and left-wing politician, undersecretary of arts from 1905 to 1912, nominated senator in 1911. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts under Constant Roux and Cabanel. In 1889 he received a mention honorable at the Exposition Universelle. He was active as a decorator at the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres and in 1907 decorated a dinner service for the Élysée Palace. (Midant & Salmon 1996) DUPAGNY Dupagny, Julien Louis (Deûlémont, Nord 1878 – Villeneuve-d’Ascq, nr. Lille 1958) Dupagny began his studies at the École des Beaux-Arts at Douai and later studied at the École de Céramique de Sèvres, where he befriended Charles Catteau, Léopold Rémion and Fernand Deshoulières, and received his diploma in 1901. The same year, in view of production, Sèvres commissioned a plaster model of a “broc à cidre” which Dupagny had designed in watercolour. His first position appears to have been as a foreman, and later director, at Janin et Guérineau. In 1902 he was awarded a gold medal at the Lille Exposition Universelle. In the following years he became director of Pierrefonds, and his name appears alongside that of the sculptor Jules Jouant on grès vases from that firm, where they worked together from late 1907 to September 1909. Several of the vases were exhibited at the Salon d’Automne in 1908 and in Copenhagen the following year. The usual heraldic cachet is absent on some of their vases, though Pierrefonds model no. 553 appears at times with the usual heraldic cachet, and at times signed “H / J. Jouant / J. Dupagny / Pierrefonds” in black. He was briefly director of Dargouge et Granboulan, which produced refractory items at Langeais, before being nominated from 1908 to at least 1913 as industrial and artistic director of the Dupagny, photo portrait. Courtesy Françoise Huchon. Faïencerie de Chauvigny (Vienne), having been invited by Deshoulières. In 1916 Rémion created a plaster portrait of Dupagny.The following year Dupagny published a technical paper on kiln construction in La Céramique XX, no. 357. Finally, in 1935 he became commercial and artistic director of the faiencerie “L’Amandinoise” at SaintAmand-les-Eaux, known principally for its table wares, which had been established in 1900. He eventually abandoned ceramics because of silicosis, devoting his later years to painting. (Sanchez 2005, 508, 803; Blanchegorge et al. 2006) Dumain, Alphonse Victor A moulder and restorer employed by the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres between 1884 and 1927. He signed at least one piece with floral decoration in 1911. (Millon 2006a, lot 135.9) Dumesnil, Guy (d. 1940) Dumesnil is attested as having worked for Montières. (Haslam 1995) Dumontet, Charles Dumontet is attested as having worked at Limoges, exhibiting porcelain, some in the style of Louis XV, at the 1889 Exposition and at Lyons in 1894. He was a member of the “Collectivité des Céramistes Chambrelans de Limoges”. (Pelichet 1976, 115; Sanchez 2005, 506) 115_220_Ceramics_D-K-LP.indd 150-151 Dupagny, design for a tureen, prepared whilst studying at Sèvres. Courtesy Françoise Huchon. Paco Durrio, “Misterio de la noche” vase. H. 21cm. The same form, in light blue glaze, is in the Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao. Courtesy Robert Zehil. 150 151 8 8 03/01/15 15:29 LUCAS Lourioux, photo portrait, date and author unknown. Lourioux, potcelain vase, designed by Abel Landry. H. 17.5cm. Vasnier coll. Reims, musée des Beaux-Arts. within the context of a dining suite designed by Dufrêne. A moulded floral art nouveau vase also bears the signature of M. Lesetre à la pointe. Lourioux further produced a small amount of figural work, including a bust of Cécile Lourioux (his mother?) and a seated faun by Descomps. In 1922 he won a prize at the Salon d’Automne, and in 1924 he assumed sole ownership of the family firm. On his death in a car accident in 1930, his wife Céline took charge. Apart from some early pieces, much of his later output was mass produced and in art deco style, some of which was realised for the Primavera studio of “Au Printemps” and was marked “Primavera” in black capital letters. His popular handled melon or aubergine jugs were copied by the firm Alpho. Lourioux used a variety of signatures. The earliest was perhaps a pair of open wings, usually printed in black, each enclosing a small “L” or, alternatively, on either side of the word “FOECY”, with his name or initials above and the word “FRANCE” below. One cachet has two overlapping “L”s or two cursive “L”s, placed front-to-front, imitating a Sèvres cachet. Some pieces are signed printed in black with two “L”s over a large wolf or dog running to the left. A further black printed signature has the letters “LLourioux” superimposed on a figure of a faun playing the pipes. Philippe Deshoulières acquired the old Lourioux firm in 1968, and now runs it as a museum. (Duncan 1998, 285; Sanchez 2005, 955) Lucas, Charles Célestin (1851–?) Worked for Sèvres between 1865 and 1910, painting and modelling porcelain, signing his pieces “C.L.” He decorated some vases designed by Doat. (Chaffers 1932, 598, 603; Midant & Salmon 1996; Duncan 1998, 399–400, 410; Sanchez 2005, 957) Luce, Maximilien (Paris 1858–1941) (“elettore”, sic) at the Accademia di Scienze, Lettere e Arti of Modena in 1906. He worked in Paris from around 1900, acting as director of the Société des grès de Charenton L.M. Barthe and Mettais-Cartier. He may have been responsible for bringing together a number of Italian artists whose signatures are found on Charenton ceramics. The Italian painter and sculptor Giuseppe Graziosi (1879–1942) is certainly known to have collaborated with him in Paris in 1902–3. Lugli also produced a number of sculptures in bronze and ivory, pewter, and porcelain. Known for his historical models (French Revolution, Napoleonic war; esp. the “Veille de Wagram” bronze lamp) and for his art nouveau female figures, he exhibited twice at the SAF. In London he built a monument honouring the dead of the Boer War. He returned to Italy following the outbreak of the First World War. A few of his terracottas produced in Italy are on display at Carpi Museum. He often signed his work “Salesio” à la pointe. (Exhibition 1971; BuffetChallié 1982, 146; Dahhan 2000, 368; ex inf. Emilio Montessori) MN Lunéville Near Nancy, this was a centre of ceramic production dependant on the École de Nancy. Pieces from the town are often marked with the monogram “Lunéville”.The principal atelier was Keller et Guérin (s.v.). Lurenier?, N. Nicolay? A noted neo-Impressionist painter and lithographer who apprenticed as engraver in the workshop of Eugène Froment. From 1904 he lived at Auteuil, Paris, during which time he decorated a few ceramics by André Methey. He was a friend of Roger Marx. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, exhibiting some faience in 1908, and took over from Signac as President in 1934. (Pelichet 1976, 99; Haslam 1985, 114; Sanchez 2005, 958) An uncertain signature found on glazed grès, probably dating to the early 20th century. Lutz, Édouard Produced some elaborately painted porcelain according to Duncan (1998, 312). Lugli, Salesio (Carpi, nr. Modena, Italy 1869–1936) A figural sculptor, presumably son of the painter Albano Lugli (b. Carpi 1835: Benezit, 1999, vol. 8, 1838), attested in a document as an elector Methey, faience vase from the Exposition Universelle at Ghent, 1913. H. 32cm. Courtesy Christie’s. 252 8 221_310_Ceramics_L-Q-LP.indd 252-253 03/01/15 15:30 TITRE COURANT Accessories 203 % 377 8 376_424_Annexes-LP.indd 376-377 06/01/15 17:29 SIGNATURES, MONOGRAMS AND SYMBOLS SIGNATURES, MONOGRAMS AND SYMBOLS Ceramic trademarks The following stamps and signatures is not a collection of artists’ signatures, of which there are many, but rather a guide to some of the principal trademarks of pottery workshops and industries. Signatures of artists are only given when they may be regarded as trademarks identifying their own individual production. In the cases of ateliers that used numerous stamps or signatures (e.g. Dalpayrat, Gallé), I have only illustrated one or two representative examples, whilst others may be found in specific publications on the artist or atelier, or in published repertoires of stamps and signatures (e.g. the Tardy volumes; Haslam, 1995; Zühlsdorff 1989). Many registered trademarks should become better known once the examples deposited in the Archives de Paris are studied systematically. Photographed marks below appearing on vases illustrated in this volume are cross referenced by page number. Alcide Chaumeil Henri Chaumeil Henri Chaumeil / Leyritz “Max” Claudet Cytère / Rambervillers Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat (p. 119-121) Albert Dammouse Frédéric Danton de Bruyn, Lille de Bruyn, Lille Émile Decœur Émile Decœur Émile Decœur Aire-Belle / Rossollin Aire-Belle / Rossollin Georges Alaphilippe Lucien Arnaud L’Art Français L’Artisan Pratique L’Art Ceramique / Auteuil (Decœur and Rumebé) François Émile Decorchemont Auguste Delaherche Auguste Delaherche Auguste Delaherche, on porcelain Charles Delanglade Pierre Delbet (p. 136-137) Claude Demay L’Art Ceramique / Auteuil / Rumebé (Decoeur and Rumebé) Auguste Bacquet Auguste Bacquet BACS Émile Balon, Blois Nils de Barck Ernest Baudin René Denert, Vierzon Jean Desbenoit Louis-Étienne Desmant Lucien Desmant Desvres / Fourmaintraux and Delassus Deyeux (p. 143) Maurice Dhomme (p. 144) Eugéne Baudin Eugéne Baudin Paul Baudin Gabriel Bernadou Besse et Peraire (p. 56) Alexandre Bigot Alexandre Bigot Émile Diffloth Émile Diffloth (p. 144) Taxile Doat Taxile Doat Georges Dreyfus Duboucheron Paco Durrio Samuel Bing Bing. Signatures of Samuel Bing and Émile Muller (p. 60) Auguste Blache? Max Blondat (p. 63) Max Blondat Alexis Boissonet Boué et Petit École de Nancy Fontaine et Durieux Louis Franchet (p. 168) Louis Galatry (p. 172) Émile Gallé Émile Gallé Ganda (p. 174) Boué et Petit Hautin et Boulenger Hautin et Boulenger Breteuil / Armand Rousseau Brocard et Leclerc (p. 81) Brocard et Leclerc (p. 81) Brocard et Leclerc (p. 81) Henri Gandais Gentil et Bourdet (p. 183) Gentil et Bourdet (p. 183) Gentil et Bourdet Genty / Adolphe and Albert Dalpayrat Édouard-Henri Getting (p. 184) Gien Girault, Demay et Vignolet / Bruère Bruyas, Paris Rupert Carabin Rupert Carabin, cat stamp Ernest Carrière (p. 91) Jean Carriès Jean Carriès, Montrivaux stamp Numa Gillet (p. 186) Glatigny / Alfred Le Chatelier Glatigny / Alfred Le Chatelier Charles Greber Johann Peter Greber Émile Grittel Émile Grittel Thomas Cartier Léon Castel Ernest Chaplet Ernest Chaplet / Charles Haviland Ernest Chaplet Charenton. Label Charenton Georges Guiard (p. 196) Georges Hamm M.A. Hamm Charles Haviland Théodore Haviland Georges Hoentschel Silvius Oscar Hucleux / Louis-Auguste Rivière? 376_424_Annexes-LP.indd 388-389 388 389 8 8 07/01/15 00:11 GLOSSARY GLOSSARY Ajouré – Openwork; decoration obtained by cutting holes through the pottery through which light would pass.The technique, known in Japan, was used on ceramics by Majorelle, Mougin, and others. the principal European artists who imitated the chawan, which also appeared from the hands of other artists of the School of Carriés (see Shimizu 2001). Cloisonné – Originally referring to jewellery encrusted with enamel or semi-precious stones inset into small metal cells, the technique thrived in Japanese enamelwork on bronze and copper. In ceramics, the term applies to vases with decoration consisting of carefully defined coloured spaces, often outlined by darker or lighter borders in low relief, that give the impression that the decoration was set into a background. The cells or spaces are sometimes created through the tube-lined technique, where the raised outlines are defined by lines of trailed slip squeezed from a bag through a tight nozzle. Collinot is attributed as having introduced the technique to French faience manufacture. À la pointe – Engraved with a stylus, usually in the ceramic clay prior to firing. Many artist signatures were thus engraved (cf. en creux), although others were realised using stamps of facsimile signatures, such as those by Bigot or Gréber. Alhambresque – A style deriving from the Islamic vases in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain. Early stoneware pieces in this style were produced by Ziegler. Later it became popular with the Massiers. Carp/koi – a wall-pocket by Ernest Carrière. Courtesy Robert Zehil. Barbotine – Refers to two similar techniques, both based on the use of coloured slips. It may be either simple slip trailed decoration, applied like icing on a cake, which was favoured by artists such as the German Max Laueger. Alternatively, it refers to painted slip decoration, favoured by Impressionist artists, particularly those working at Gien, at Haviland’s atelier d’Auteuil or at Montigny-sur-Loing. In their case the thick slip was applied rather like oil paint, and thinned with a palette to obtain varying thicknesses and tones. However, during the second half of the nineteenth century the term was also used generically and inappropriately for French majolica (Gay-Mazuel 2010). Alhambresque: an early stoneware vase by Ziegler in the Hispano-Moresque style. London, Victoria and Albert Museum. 376_424_Annexes-LP.indd 392-393 Blancs – Literally “whites”. The English term blank derives from this term, which also refers to porcelain produced without painted decoration. The use of such blancs highlighted the qualities of kaolinitic clays. Some were later used like a canvas by a painter or decorator. GDA of Limoges, for instance, purposely produced blancs for Bing’s gallery, to be decorated by his in-house artists. Some American firms bought European blancs, which were painted by their own artists even many years after they were made. Bleu Deck or “bleu de Deck” – A renowned turquoise blue colour inspired by Turkish Iznik ware and created by Théodore Deck in 1861. Carp (Jap. koi) – The carp is a symbol of strength, good fortune, as well as affection and friendship in Japan and, as such, appears widely in both Japanese art and art nouveau. Cha-ire – Japanese tea caddy, to hold powdered tea. They were often produced in pottery with ivory or ebony lids. A form highly popular with Jean Carriés and artists of his School. (see Shimizu 2001). Champlevé – A form of decoration that consists of carving away parts of a slip coating prior to glazing, so as to create contrasts in colour or tone. A neo-Classical charger produced by Froment-Delormel around 1884 at Optat Milet’s atelier shows the technique at its best. It was first developed by Islamic and Byzantine potters between the eleventh and thirteenth centuries. Chawan – Japanese tea bowl, with no handle. They were often distorted or crazed during firing, intended to represent the earth that they came from. Emile Grittel was one of Cloisonnisme – A style of decoration, usually applied to painting, based on the cloisonné technique of providing bold outlines to what is being represented. Some scholars suggest that Chaplet and Gauguin were influenced by the outlined designs of the English artist Kate Greenaway (1846–1901), which she applied to children’s books, though borrowing from Japanese technique. It has also been suggested that Gauguin’s cloisonnisme was influenced by the medieval stained glass that he had studied. Coloured glass panels were at one and the same time united and divided by lead cames. Colocynth – s.v. “gourd”. Chromolithography – A mechanical technique of printing on faience and porcelain, perfected by Jochum. By the end of the nineteenth century it revolutionised ceramic decoration, cutting down on the time involved in painting and, thus, costs. However, it was not used solely for mass production, but also on some high-quality ceramics, including pieces decorated by Bracquemond (e.g. Meslin-Perrier & Segonds-Perrier 2002, 214, fig. 216, for his soleil levant plate). Craquelé (Eng. crazed) – Vases, with purposefully crazed glazes created through differential shrinkage of the glaze and the ceramic body, became a novelty in the early years of the twentieth century through the work of ceramists such as Methey and Lenoble. Crystallisation – Patterns of radiating crystals within the glazed surface of vases produced during cooling, due to the presence of titanium oxide. The process was discovered by Charles Laught at Sèvres in 1885, though was not regularly used until the late 1890s, when it was employed by both French and foreign artists, including Valdemar Engelhardt (1860–1915). He produced a colour spectrum of crystalline glazes at Royal Copenhagen, exhibited at the 1889 Paris Exposition. It became a favoured decorative technique of Pierrefonds, though was also used by other firms, such as Sarreguemines, with its Etna series, or Sèvres on porcelain. Earthenware – s.v. “terracotta”. Émail cloisonné – s.v. “cloisonné”. Émail ombrant – This process entailed applying transparent coloured glazes on moulded white biscuit products. The varying thickness of the glaze, enhanced through shallow relief decoration on the pottery, produced shadow effects, from which the term takes its name. Charles de Bourgoing and Alexis du Tremblay patented the technique in 1842. Émail velouté – Edmond Lachenal perfected a very fine and smooth glaze, created through use of bathing finished vases in hydrochloric acid. He used the technique to decorate ceramics through contrast between the normal shiny glaze and the etched matt or velvety surfaces that had been treated by the acid. Both Baudin and Michelet also appear to have employed the technique of émail velouté. Dragon – In China the dragon symbolised the divine. It was fairly frequently employed on art nouveau ceramics as a decorative motif, often in relief. Many examples can be seen on products of the Austrian firm Amphora.The motif appears in the work of various French ceramic artists, above all by Théodore Deck (e.g. Franzke 1987, pl. III), Loebnitz and Rambervillers. See also “lizard”. (Wichmann 1981, 336–39). Dragonfly – One of the most popular insects appearing in all forms of art nouveau decoration. Dragonflies were often associated with ponds and lakes and, by extension, with representations of the Lady of the Lake in La Mort d’Arthur. It thus provides a link between Japanese art and the neo-Gothic. Dragonflies frequently appear on the works of Claudet, Denbac, Balon and others. Drip-glaze – Glaze that is purposely dripped down a vase for decorative effect. Drip-glazes are often white or light coloured so as to contrast with a darker glazed body.The technique became particularly prized in 17th-century Japan and continues to be used today. 392 393 8 8 Émail velouté: the technique is used on this vase by Edmond Lachenal to highlight the sprigs of leaves. H. 25cm. Private coll. 06/01/15 17:29 BIBLIOGRAPHY BIBLIOGRAPHY Much of the information on the roles and dates of people who worked at Sèvres comes from the list maintained by Tamara Préaud, former archivist at the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres. 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