Emile Diffloth
Crystals and Roses C0342
Inventory NumberC0342Size
4 1/2" H x 9 1/2 " WMaterial
StonewarePeriod
Art NouveauCountry of Origin
FranceYear Made
c1900Status
AvailableCondition
Perfect
Description
Modernist blue crystals on a dappled peach background form the setting for six sculptural rosettes based upon classical European precedents. The combination of modernism and classicism on one vessel was a specialty of both Diffloth and his friend Taxile Doat, both of whom had worked at Sèvres and University City. The overlapping of traditions is significant to design historians who view moments of transition from one style to another with particular interest. Marks: painted artist's cipher, 58 A
