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Vase

1895 (made)
Artist/Maker
Chaplet, Ernest (maker)
Place of origin
Choisy-le-Roi (made)

Vase, porcelain, cylindrical with narrowed neck, with dull mottled gree and blue glaze dripped over white.


Object details

Categories
Access_to_Images 2003
Ceramics
Porcelain
Vases
SCRAN
Object type
Vase
Materials and techniques
Porcelain with high temperature, flammée glaze
Brief description
Porcelain vase with turquoise to red 'flambé' glaze, by Ernest Chaplet, France (Choisy-le-Roi), 1895
Physical description
Vase, porcelain, cylindrical with narrowed neck, with dull mottled gree and blue glaze dripped over white.
Dimensions
  • Height: 8cm
Marks and inscriptions
A circle of dots (Maker's mark, incised on base. Circle of dots in the form of a rosary is a play on the potter's name, chaplet.)
Object history
Historical significance: Ernest Chaplet (1835-1909), born at Sèvres, began work at the State factory at the age of 12. He became a highly skilled ceramicist working in potteries at Choisy-le-Roi and Bourg-la-Reine and then for the Limoges manufacturers, the Haviland brothers at a new workshop in Auteuil. In 1881 Haviland provided him with a studio at rue Blomet, Vaugirard, Paris. There he developed high temperature glazes on porcelain, and on stoneware. In 1886 he bought the workshop and concentrated on these glazes, as an independent potter, keeping his glazes recipes and firing temperatures a closely-guarded secret. He was regarded by his contemporaries as the consummate ceramicist. Chaplet sold the workshop to August Delaherche in 1887 and moved back to Choisy-le-Roi where he specialised in porcelain.
Bibliographic references
  • Paris, Musée des Arts Décoratifs: Ernest Chaplet, catalogue, 1976 d'Albis, J.: 'Chaplet Master Potter', in Connoisseur, ?June, 1976, pp129-136 Roger-Marx: 'Souvenirs sur Ernest Chaplet'; Art et Decoration, xxvii, Jan-June, 1910, pp.89-98
  • Greenhalgh, Paul (Ed.), Art Nouveau: 1890-1914 . London: V&A Publications, 2000 pp.196-7
Collection
Ceramics Collection
Accession number
1493-1900

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Record createdJune 7, 2004
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