Vase and cover

Physical description

Clear brown-grey glass vase and cover, mould-blown and wheel-cut, with moulded decoration; design based on the peacock tail feather.

Place of Origin

Paris, France (made)

Date

1889 (made)

Artist/maker

Ernest-Baptiste Leveillé glass workshop (manufacturer)

Materials and Techniques

mould-blown and wheel-cut glass

Object history note

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 to Léveillé's design and decorated in Paris with a repeating pattern of peacock's tail feathers. The unusually simple vase was bought from Léveillé himself. Léveillé exhibited in the Universal Exhibition, Paris, in 1889 and it is possible that this vase was included or that Léveillé's exhibit encouraged the Museum to approach him privately.

Descriptive line

Vase and cover, France (Paris), made by Ernest-Baptiste Leveillé glass workshop, 1889, 78-1890

Bibliographic References (Citation, Note/Abstract, NAL no)

Arwas,V; Art N - Art deco, Leveille and Rousseau; Beard, G: International Modern Glass

Labels and date

'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900'

Léveillé studied and subsequently collaborated with Eugène Rousseau and like him and many of their contemporaries his first work was inspired by the Far East, particularly Japan. The design on this unusually simple vase, bought from Léveillé himself, is based on the peacock tail feather. Léveillé exhibited in the Universal Exhibition, Paris, in 1889 and it is possible that this vase was included or that Léveillé's exhibit encouraged the Museum to approach him privately. [1987-2006]

Production Note

Léveillé studied and subsequently collaborated with Eugène Rousseau and like him and many of their contemporaries his first work was inspired by the Far East, particularly Japan.

Materials

Glass

Techniques

Mould-blown; Cutting (glassworking)

Subjects depicted

Peacock feathers

Collection code

CER