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

Vase d'Argenteuil

Vase
ca. 1899 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

Painted porcelain vase


Object details

Category
Object type
TitleVase d'Argenteuil (manufacturer's title)
Materials and techniques
Porcelain, painted
Brief description
Painted porcelain vase, designed by Gillet, decorated by Louis-Jules Mimard, Sèvres, 1899
Physical description
Painted porcelain vase
Gallery label
VASE Sevres Porcelain Factory Manufacturer Gillet Designer Louis-Jules Mimard (active 1884-1928) Decorator Paris (Sevres): decorated 1899 Porcelain, painted C.42-1972 This vase called a 'Vase d'Argenteuil' was included in the Sevres porcelain display at the Paris 1900 Exhibition, for which the factory won a Grand Prix. In the 1880s Charles Lauth and Georges Vogt, the Sevres chemists, developed new porcelains and colours. These, and a large range of new shapes, many of them by the artistic director Alexandre Sandier, revolutionised Sevres production. The forms were mainly simple with a generous expanse of body while the newly introduced colours were able to take multiple firings giving wider scope for the decorators.
Credit line
Given in memory of Lavinia and Charles Handley-Read by Mr Thomas Stainton
Object history
Formerly in the Handley-Read Colln.
Subject depicted
Collection
Accession number
C.42:1-1972

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Record createdApril 27, 2009
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