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V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 139, The Curtain Foundation Gallery

Artist/Maker	Ziegler, Jules-Claude (manufacturer)
Place of origin	Voisinlieu (made)

Vase of brown salt-glazed stoneware decorated with applied vine-leaves and grapes. Bulbous body with a narrow neck, expanding mouth, and two loop handles with leaves and grapes attached at their lower end.

Object details

Categories	Ceramics Stoneware
Object type	Vase
Materials and techniques	Salt-glazed stoneware with applied decoration Salt Glaze Stoneware Glazed Applied
Brief description	Vase of brown salt-glazed stoneware, made by Jules-Claude Ziegler, Voisinlieu, ca. 1840-ca. 1850.
Physical description	Vase of brown salt-glazed stoneware decorated with applied vine-leaves and grapes. Bulbous body with a narrow neck, expanding mouth, and two loop handles with leaves and grapes attached at their lower end.
Dimensions	Height: 28.6cm Width: 16.2cm
Marks and inscriptions	'JZ' [In monogram] (Impressed)
Gallery label	(1987-2006) VASE 4075-1901 'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900' Ziegler was very much an academic among factory owners. Born in 1804, he studied stoneware-making in Germany; he was a painter, curator of the museum at Dijon, and author of a book on the principles of beauty in ceramics, architecture and forms in general. He founded his factory near Beauvais in 1839, and made dark stoneware in archaic shapes and decorated with relief ornament. His products were rewarded with numerous medals. Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn St.
Credit line	Transferred from the Museum of Practical Geology, Jermyn Street
Subjects depicted	Vine Grapes
Collection	Ceramics Collection
Accession number	4075-1901

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Record created	April 11, 2006
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O122975/vase-ziegler-jules-claude/

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