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Image of Gallery in South Kensington
On display at V&A South Kensington
Glass, Room 131

Vase

1889 (made)
Artist/Maker
Appert Frères (manufacturer)
Ernest-Baptiste Leveillé Glass Workshop (retailer)
Place of origin
Paris (made)

Vase, France (Paris), made probably by Appert Frères, Clichy, for Ernest-Baptiste Léveillé glass workshop and shop in Paris, 1889


Object details

Object type
Vase
Materials and techniques
Carved glass, wheel-cut, with gold and coloured inclusions, crackled
Crackle Glass
Cut Glass
Cutting (Glassworking)
Brief description
Vase, France (Paris), made probably by Appert Frères, Clichy, for Ernest-Baptiste Léveillé glass workshop and shop in Paris, 1889
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.0cm
  • Maximum width: 16.0cm
Style
19TH CONT
Gallery label
  • Ernest-Baptiste Léveillé had a glass and ceramic-selling business at 74 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris. He was a member of the Paris 'art-glass' fraternity and a pupil (later partner) of Eugène Rousseau who owned a similar shop at 43 rue Coquillière. In 1885, Léveillé took over Rousseau's workshop, retaining Eugène Michel and Alphonse Georges Reyen as chief designers and decorators. This vase, shown at the international exhibition, Paris, 1889, is in mottled and splashed glass imitating agates, with the additional conceit of an applied and cut 'crystal' as though emerging naturally from the form.
  • VASE 76-1890 'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900' This vase was shown at the Paris 1889 Exhibition, and then purchased from Lèveillè who was a pupil and then partner Eugène Rousseau, the founder of the French art-glass movement. He used Rousseau's technique of crackled glass metallic oxides and gold leaf inclusions, to very similar effect. Here Lèveillè has indulged in the additional conceit of an applied and cut 'crystal' of glass, as though emerging naturally from the form.(1987-2006)
Bibliographic reference
Arwas,V; Art N - Art deco, Leveille and Rousseau; Paris, Musée d'Orsay: Catalogue sommaire...., p189..
Other number
9439 - Glass gallery number
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
76-1890

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
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