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Jean-Joseph Carriès French
Carriès reveled in the textural possibility of ceramic glazes. He used drips, welts, and cracks to create unusual forms. Here, a bug-eyed amphibian man squats low to the ground. He seems to have oozed out of the same muddy source as the frog he embraces with a sinewy limb.
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Title: Le Grenouillard (The Frog Man)
Maker:
Jean-Joseph Carriès (French, Lyons 1855–1894 Paris)
Date: ca. 1891
Culture: French, Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye
Medium: Glazed stoneware
Dimensions: wt. confirmed: 13 in., 29.1 lb. (33 cm, 13.2 kg)
Classification: Ceramics-Pottery
Credit Line: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Purchase, Acquisitions Fund; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and 2011 Benefit Fund, 2013
Object Number: 2013.490
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