Vase
Designer Emile Lenoble French
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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. Unlike most European ceramics, which traditionally looked to Japanese, Chinese, or Korean precedents, this bottle-shaped vase, decorated with stylized arabesques, was inspired by Persian examples.
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