Square vase

Maker: Ernest Chaplet (French, Sèvres 1835–1909 Choisy-le-Roi)

Date: ca. 1889

Culture: French, Choisy-le-Roi

Medium: Porcelain

Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 15 3/8 × 7 3/4 × 7 3/4 in., 12.9 lb. (39 × 19.7 × 19.7 cm, 5.9 kg)

Classification: Ceramics-Porcelain

Credit Line: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Purchase, Isaacson-Draper Foundation Gift, 2013

Accession Number: 2013.477

Description

Chaplet became well known for his Chinese-inspired forms and colored glazes. In the 1880s he learned how to make the desirable but technically difficult oxblood (sang de boeuf) glaze, for which he won the gold medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris.

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