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Tray with landscape

Decorator Emile Lessore French
Manufactory Wedgwood and Co.
ca. 1860
Not on view
Emile Lessore was one of Wedgwood’s most recognized and prolific decorators in the third quarter of the nineteenth century, and based on the number of surviving works by his hand, his painterly style must have found great favor with both the buying public and the Wedgwood factory administrators, who continued to employ Lessore after he returned to France in 1862.

[Elizabeth Sullivan, 2014]

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Tray with landscape
  • Decorator: Emile Lessore (French, 1805–1876)
  • Manufactory: Wedgwood and Co.
  • Date: ca. 1860
  • Culture: British, Staffordshire
  • Medium: Creamware with polychrome enamel
  • Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 2 1/4 × 15 × 15 in. (5.7 × 38.1 × 38.1 cm)
  • Classification: Ceramics-Pottery
  • Credit Line: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2014
  • Object Number: 2014.712.17
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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