Edouard Dammouse

Romance C0365

Inventory Number
C0365Size
16 1/2" H x 11 1/2" WMaterial
StonewarePeriod
JaponismCountry of Origin
FranceYear Made
c1890Status
availableCondition
original

Description

Remarkable in many ways, this luxurious vase is the collaborative work of three designers, Edouard Dammouse, Ernest Chaplet, and Albert Kalt. Kalt worked as a decorator in Albert Dammouse's studio in Sèvres in the late 1870s or early 1880s and is known through his signed watercolor studies of flowers. Decorations here include two bouquets, one of chrysanthemums, the other of irises, each tied loosely near the base with blue ribbons. Stray daisies blend the two major floral studies into a cohesive composition. Flower and leaf shapes have been incised into the clay, creating bold Japonist outlines. The areas thus created have then been painted with thick glazes and edged with gold, giving the design a tactile, three-dimensional quality. Not the idealized posies of eighteenth-century aristocratic porcelain, these naturalistic flowers might have been purchased at the local market stall and were immortalized under the sway of Japonism.
Impressed Chaplet's cipher on bottom, Painted and Impressed ED. D. on side.