Vase with Tendrils by Lachenal in the Metropolitan Museum, March 2022

Title: Vase with tendrils

Maker: Edmond Lachenal (French, 1855–1948)

Date: 1899

Culture: French, Châtillon-sous-Bagneux

Medium: Glazed stoneware

Dimensions: Overall (confirmed, irregular diameter): 12 5/8 × 10 1/2 × 10 1/2 in., 11.2 lb. (32.1 × 26.7 × 26.7 cm, 5.1 kg)

Classification: Ceramics-Pottery

Credit Line: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Gift of Robert A. Ellison Jr., 2013

Accession Number: 2013.239.24

In 1883, Edmond Lachenal moved to the outskirts of Paris and set up a pottery workshop in Châtillon-sous-Bagneux. In this rural setting, he experimented with glazes, firing techniques, and ceramic bodies such as grès stoneware. Layered glazes bring drama to this relatively simple vase, ornamented with tress-like tendrils at the neck.


Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/239489