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On display at V&A South Kensington
Ceramics, Room 145

Vase

1893-1900 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

This vase is typical of Dalpayrat's preoccupation with colour and glaze effects. Dalpayrat is perhaps best known for his work in stoneware although he also worked in earthenware and porcelain. The elevation of stoneware to an art medium in France followed the exhibition of traditional Japanese wares in Paris in 1878. Japanese style also prompted an altogether looser aesthetic, with an interest in organic forms, rich surface patination, and abstracted decoration.

Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat (1840-1910) was born in Limoges. He was a very experienced maker by 1889 when he set up in Bourg-la-Reine, near Paris. There he collaborated with other makers but also, with his wife and three sons, he ran what was effectively a small family workshop. Like several of his contemporaries, Dalpayrat aimed to make reasonably priced artistic stoneware with coloured glazes. A highly commercial maker, working at this date with (Mlle) Adèle Lesbros & cie, he perfected a rich red glaze known as Rouge Dalpayrat. He won a gold medal at the international exhibition held in Chicago, 1893


Object details

Categories
Object type
Materials and techniques
Stoneware, with a high-temperature glaze
Brief description
Stoneware vase with a high-temperature glaze in the shape of a gourd, made by Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, France, 1893-1900.
Physical description
Stoneware with a flambé glaze, Ribbed, elongated bulbous body with curved and slightly twisted neck; the whole surface is covered with mottled greenish-blue and purple glaze.
Dimensions
  • Height: 36.8cm
  • Diameter: 16.5cm
Style
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Dalpayrat'; a flaming grenade, impressed (inscribed in brown)
  • flaming ball (incised)
Gallery label
VASE 952-1901 'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900' Dalpayrat's skill with high temperature flambé glazes meant that he was able to control this largely unpredictable technique to a remarkable degree. His interest in such glazes led him, like so many of his contemporaries, to use the natural forms of fruit, such as gourds, in emulation of the Japanese. Dalpayrat was keenly aware of Chinese and Japanese glazes and forms, particularly the latter which were disseminated through such journals as LeJapanArtistique, produced by the dealer Siegfried Bing.(1987-2006)
Subject depicted
Summary
This vase is typical of Dalpayrat's preoccupation with colour and glaze effects. Dalpayrat is perhaps best known for his work in stoneware although he also worked in earthenware and porcelain. The elevation of stoneware to an art medium in France followed the exhibition of traditional Japanese wares in Paris in 1878. Japanese style also prompted an altogether looser aesthetic, with an interest in organic forms, rich surface patination, and abstracted decoration.

Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat (1840-1910) was born in Limoges. He was a very experienced maker by 1889 when he set up in Bourg-la-Reine, near Paris. There he collaborated with other makers but also, with his wife and three sons, he ran what was effectively a small family workshop. Like several of his contemporaries, Dalpayrat aimed to make reasonably priced artistic stoneware with coloured glazes. A highly commercial maker, working at this date with (Mlle) Adèle Lesbros & cie, he perfected a rich red glaze known as Rouge Dalpayrat. He won a gold medal at the international exhibition held in Chicago, 1893
Bibliographic reference
Greenhalgh, Paul (Ed.), Art Nouveau: 1890-1914 . London: V&A Publications, 2000
Collection
Accession number
952-1901

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Record createdDecember 30, 2003
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