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Vase

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

Vase, France (Paris), made by the Ernest-Baptiste Leveillé glass workshop, 1889-90


Object details

Categories
Images Online
SCRAN
Object type
Vase
Materials and techniques
Glass in two layers, the outer wheel-cut, the inner crackled and with gold and coloured
Cut Glass
Crackle Glass
Cutting (Glassworking)
Brief description
Vase, France (Paris), made by the Ernest-Baptiste Leveillé glass workshop, 1889-90
Dimensions
  • Height: 16.5cm
  • Maximum width: 18.4cm
Style
19TH CONT
Gallery label
  • Ernest-Baptiste Leveillé had a glass-making and selling business at 74 Boulevard Haussmann, and later in rue Coquillière, Paris. He was a member of the Paris 'art-glass' fraternity and a pupil (later partner) of Eugène Rousseau, one of the movement's founders. This piece was made after 1885 when Leveillé took over Rousseau's workshop. The glass was made, possibly, by either Appert Frères or at Clichy and decorated in Paris. This vase is in mottled and splashed glass imitating agate.
  • VASE 77-1890 'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900' In 1885 Léveillé bought F.E. Rousseau's glass workshop where he had been a pupil, combining this with his continuation of their jointly owned retail shop in the Boulevard Haussman. In the glassworks he adopted many of Rousseau's techniques including the production of crackled (craquelé) glass which is formed by plunging red hot glass into cold water and then reheating it and re-forming it by blowing and other techniques.(1987-2006)
Bibliographic reference
Arwas,V; Art N - Art deco, Leveille and Rousseau; Beard,G: International Modern Glass
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
77-1890

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Record createdDecember 13, 1997
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1845/vase-ernest-baptiste-leveillé/
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