Vase

ca. 1922

Not on view

While apprenticed to the renowned French potter Ernest Chaplet, Lenoble, who had worked in a faience factory, discovered stoneware. He went on to become one of the first modern ceramists to elevate it from a base material, suitable only for disposable utilitarian wares, to one worthy of the highest artistic expression. Unlike most European ceramics, which traditionally looked to Japanese, Chinese, or Korean precedents, this bottle-shaped vase, decorated with stylized arabesques, was inspired by Persian examples.

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Title: Vase
Designer: Emile Lenoble (French, Paris 1875–1939 Choisy le Roi)
Date: ca. 1922
Culture: French
Medium: Stoneware
Dimensions: 8 7/8 × 5 7/8 in., 2.1 lb. (22.5 × 15 cm, 1 kg)
Classification: Ceramics-Pottery
Credit Line: Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1922
Object Number: 22.184.3
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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