Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer

Love Token C0345

Inventory Number
C0345Size
3 1/4" H x 2 1/4" WMaterial
EarthenwarePeriod
SymbolistCountry of Origin
FranceYear Made
c1890Status
AvailableCondition
Perfect

Description

Massier and Lévy-Dhurmer created this petite vase with as much care as they lavished on their larger works. The décor features the seed pod of the poppy, a flower of many associations. Although we often connect the plant to opium, the seeds are commonly used in baking and in Persian literature the flower represents love. On the surface of this vessel, areas of hatched lines form a background for realistically etched and painted poppy pods. Like all luster-glazed ceramics, the surface is animated by changes in the intensity and angle of direct light. Marks: painted glaze C.M., Golfe Juan, L. Levy