Vase
1896 (made)
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This vase is typical of Dalpayrat's preoccupation with colour and glaze effects. He specialised in copper red glazes combined with rich greens and purples and first exhibited this glaze in 1892 to 1893.
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. The 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.
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. The 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.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Stoneware, with a high-temperature glaze |
| Brief description | Stoneware vase with a high-temperature glaze made by Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, French, 1896. |
| Physical description | Stoneware with flambé glaze |
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| Marks and inscriptions | flaming ball (impressed to base) |
| Gallery label | VASE
489-1896
'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900'
Dalpayrat specialised in cooper red glazes combined with rich greens and purples. He exhibited this glaze first in 1892 to 1893. He established his workshop in Bourg-la-Reine in 1889 with his wife and their three sons. After the death in 1893 of his chief collaborator, Alphonse Voisin Delacroix, he combined with Mille. Adèle Lesbros in aiming to produce high quality but reasonably priced stoneware. Also in 1893 he won a gold medal at the International Exhibition held in Chicago.(1987-2006) |
| Summary | This vase is typical of Dalpayrat's preoccupation with colour and glaze effects. He specialised in copper red glazes combined with rich greens and purples and first exhibited this glaze in 1892 to 1893. 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. The 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. |
| Bibliographic reference | Greenhalgh, Paul (Ed.), Art Nouveau: 1890-1914 . London: V&A Publications, 2000
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| Accession number | 498-1896 |
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| Record created | January 7, 2004 |
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