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Art Nouveau "Octopus Sculpture" by Ernest Chaplet

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  • Art Nouveau Porcelain Vase by Ernest Chaplet
    By Ernest Chaplet
    Located in Chicago, US
    The Venus of Willendorf if she were a pot; this diminutive size is perfectly suited for holding in your hands. This pot is meant to be caressed. Its rather buxom top narrows at the w...
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    Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases

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  • Art Nouveau Blood Red Hu Stoneware Vase by Ernest Chaplet
    By Ernest Chaplet
    Located in Chicago, US
    Coming from an artist who guarded his notebooks like trade secrets and purportedly destroyed them before his death in 1907, owning a vase from Chaplet’s experimental period is like p...
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    Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases

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    Enamel

  • Art Nouveau Poppy Stoneware Vase by Ernest Chaplet and Edouard Dammouse
    By Ernest Chaplet, Edouard Dammouse
    Located in Chicago, US
    Poppies, golden-accented in analagous colors of blue and orange, creep up their leafy green stalks which sag from the heavy weight of the flowers. Like tired heavy-lidded eyes, the poppies symbolize hypnos’ sleep-inducing effects. Dammouse’s somnific symbolism evokes an other-worldly dream-like state and acts as a vehicle to tap into the imagination. Much more than a pretty face, or a pretty vase, this is a sublime piece of art, and Dammouse makes clear the influence of Braquemond and others by employing this Symbolist style. Beaudelaire’s credo that “Beauty must contain the absolute and the particular, the eternal and the transitory” aptly applies. Created while both Chaplet and Edouard Dammouse were employed by Haviland & Co. at its Paris location, this vase is a prime example of Chaplet’s early creative output of matte brown stoneware. Both artists demonstrate a strong link and affinity for Japonisme in the vase’s traditional form and in the painterly approach Dammouse brings to the enamel glaze. His treatment of enhancing the floral decoration with gold detailing calls to mind Kintsugi aesthetic principles. Affixed to the vase’s underside is its original label indicating it was sold at the chic A la Paix, a Parisian gallery located on the prestigious Avenue de l’Opera which opened in 1891, specializing in glass and ceramic objects of art. Ernest Chaplet (1835-1907) Not only was Chaplet France’s premier studio ceramist, the example he set of personally creating a ceramic object from the conceptual phase through modeling, firing and glazing - constantly reaching for new and innovative modes of expression and technique - elevated the notion of a ceramist from artisan to Artist. While Director of Production for Haviland & Co., Chaplet expanded their focus from porcelain into stoneware production and developed the barbotine method of painting earthenware with liquid clay as well as conducted extensive research in glaze techniques. He was awarded a Gold Medal in 1889 at Paris’ l’Exposition Universelle for his revolutionary sang de boeuf glaze. That same year, Chaplet opened his own atelier in Choisy-le-Roi where he continued to produce avant-garde stoneware and support younger talent. Edouard Dammouse (1850-1903) Trained as a painter, Paris born Edouard Dammouse studied under Felix Bracquemond, Ernest Chaplet’s predecessor at Haviland & Co.‘s Auteuil studio. Edouard followed his brother, Albert, and Chaplet to Haviland’s Paris...
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    Antique 1890s French Art Nouveau Vases

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    Enamel

  • Art Nouveau Bronze Sculpture
    Located in London, GB
    A charming bust of a young lady , it is executed in the lost-wax method in a single piece mounted on a base of different tones of marbles. The surface is finished in reddish-oxide t...
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    Early 20th Century Italian Art Nouveau Busts

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  • Bronze Art Nouveau Sculpture
    Located in Sagaponack, NY
    A cast bronze sculpture with original markings. Stamped "Made in France" "LN PARIS JR".
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    Early 20th Century French Art Nouveau Sculptures

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    Bronze

  • Art Glass Octopus Sculpture by Hans Godo Frabel
    By Hans Godo Frabel
    Located in San Diego, CA
    Art glass octopus sculpture by Hans Godo Frabel, circa 1970s. The sculpture is made of clear blown glass and measures 6"D x 3"H. The piece is in very good vintage condition with no c...
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    Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures

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