Vase with snowdrops
Henri-Léon Charles Robalbhen French
or possibly Henri Alphonse Laurent-Desrousseaux French
Not on view
Art Nouveau ceramics, produced from around 1880 to 1914, the start of World War I, encompassed a variety of different styles and influences, including national historicism, nature, symbolism, and an interest in Japanese culture. The period’s diverse practitioners were driven by the search for new forms that responded to the sweeping social, cultural, economic and artistic changes wrought by industrialization at the end of the nineteenth century and the advent of World War I.
The Art Nouveau French ceramicist Robalbhen specialized in vegetal and floral motifs such as the snowdrops seen on this unusually shaped vase, which appear to organically meld with the rough surface of the vessel.
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