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Bottle vase

ca. 1890
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 556
This bottle vase is decorated with a flambé glaze, a mixture of deep copper red and turquoise blue. The technique, known in China for centuries, was emulated in the nineteenth century by French art potters led by Chaplet. It involved the oxidation of copper in the kiln (reduced oxygen to create red; increased oxygen for blue). One critic wrote, "M. Chaplet, who, after thirty years of special study, also seems to have gained absolute control over his capricious materials, so that, apparently at will, he can, on a single piece, obtain the most unexpected and diverse effects of color."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Bottle vase
  • Maker: Ernest Chaplet (French, Sèvres 1835–1909 Choisy-le-Roi)
  • Date: ca. 1890
  • Culture: French, Choisy-le-Roi
  • Medium: Porcelain
  • Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 16 15/16 × 7 1/2 × 7 1/2 in., 11 lb. (43 × 19.1 × 19.1 cm, 5 kg)
  • Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain
  • 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: 2013.478
  • Curatorial Department: European Sculpture and Decorative Arts

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