Vase Cerny
Designer Hector Guimard French
Manufactory Sèvres Manufactory 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 talented architect Hector Guimard was a major proponent of the Art Nouveau style. A prolific designer of urban forms, notably the entrances to Paris’s glamorous new transit system, Guimard was commissioned by Sèvres national manufactory to create new models that would debut at the 1900 World Exposition in Paris, including the Vase de Cerny, which celebrated the design elements of Art Nouveau.
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