Vase

Emile Lenoble

1925 · Glazed 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. Lenoble’s marriage of delicate floral imagery with stoneware, a dense and raw material, is a testament to his creativity and skill; the ornament is infused with a naivete that was celebrated by contemporary artists who sought inspiration in vernacular traditions. This vase was bought by the New York collector Aline Meyer Liebman at the Exposition des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1925 and was later given to The Met.

Artist

Emile Lenoble

Date

1925

Medium

Glazed stoneware

Department

Modern and Contemporary Art

Credit line

Gift of Charles J. Liebman Jr., 1965