Inventory Number DAP143
Size 7" H x 8.3" W
Material Stoneware
Period Art Nouveau
Country of Origin France
Year Made C. 1895
Condition Excellent
Although this lovely vase does not bear his signature, it was undoubtedly modeled by Alphonse Voisin-Delacroix, who collaborated briefly with Dalpayrat in 1893 until his untimely death that year from pleurisy. After 1893, Dalpayrat re-cast many of Voisin’s models without his initials. This vase appears to be such a casting. A finely modeled salamander crawls out of a fire’s dying embers, where according to legend, this amphibian could live. It is possible that the addition of salt or soda during the firing accounts for the mottled beadlike reduction glaze, which is sometimes referred to as a “tiger-skin” surface.
Publications
Model illustrated in Makus, Horst, Adrien Dalpayrat, 1844-1910: französische Jugendstil-Keramik (Stuttgart: Arnoldsche, 1998), 138.
-Description by Claire Cass
