Vase
Designer Emile Lenoble French
Not on view
While apprenticed to the renowned French potter Ernest Chaplet, Lenoble, who had worked in a faience factory, discovered stoneware. He went on to become one of the first modern ceramists to elevate it from a base material, suitable only for disposable utilitarian wares, to one worthy of the highest artistic expression. Lenoble’s marriage of delicate floral imagery with stoneware, a dense and raw material, is a testament to his creativity and skill; the ornament is infused with a naivete that was celebrated by contemporary artists who sought inspiration in vernacular traditions.
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