Inventory Number CAJ043
Size 10.13d in.
Material Stoneware
Period Art Nouveau
Country of Origin France
Year Made 1891-1894
Condition Excellent
Pear-shaped vessel with sloping shoulder, long neck, and everted rim. Brown stoneware decorated with drips of black glaze and a splash of white glaze with Shino-style crazing around lip and neck. More than any other French art potter, Carriès grasped the Japanese aesthetic principles of wabi (simple beauty with happenstance elements) and sabi (beauty derived from the patina of age), clearly visible on this graceful yet sober bottle vase. Carriès employed these traditional values in the fusion style known as wabi-sabi, here expressed through rustic form and accidental glaze drips and splash.
Marks: Signed with the artist's mark, numbered.
