Bottle-shaped vase
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. Sèvres manufactory experimented with unusual glazes at the turn of the twentieth century, such as this crystalline glaze, applied to an otherworldly form that resembles a sea creature.
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