VASE

Circa 1860-1870

Possible biscuit from Toul-Bellevue

Polychrome enamelled earthenware

H. 37 cm

Private collection

© Pescheteau - Badin

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Pescheteau - Badin, Céramiques modernes, lot 91, Paris, Friday, October 12, 2007.

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Baluster vase in enamelled earthenware, covered with a celadon glaze and adorned with a polychrome decoration of Far Eastern inspiration. Lush vegetation of banana trees, bamboo, palm trees and grasses unfolds over the entire vase, in a subtle harmony of blues and greens.

A cornucopia vase with a comparable vegetal decor, exhibited by Auguste Jean in London in 1862, allows this pair to be dated to the 1860s-1870s.

This vase testifies to Auguste Jean's interest in Far Eastern arts, of which he offers a free and personal interpretation here. The continuous decor, the palette of blues and greens, and its pictorial treatment are part of the Orientalist taste that was then renewing French decorative arts. Like Théodore Deck and Eugène Collinot, Auguste Jean thus participated in the eclecticism that characterized French ceramics under the Second Empire.