Vase

Emile Lenoble

ca. 1922 · Stoneware · Modern and Contemporary Art

While apprenticed to the renowned French potter Ernest Chaplet, Lenoble, who had worked in a faience factory, discovered stoneware. He went on to become one of the first modern ceramists to elevate it from a base material, suitable only for disposable utilitarian wares, to one worthy of the highest artistic expression. Unlike most European ceramics, which traditionally looked to Japanese, Chinese, or Korean precedents, this bottle-shaped vase, decorated with stylized arabesques, was inspired by Persian examples.

Artist

Emile Lenoble

Date

ca. 1922

Medium

Stoneware

Culture

French

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1922