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Basket Vase in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2022

Basket Vase in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2022
Title: Basket vase

Maker: Georges Hoentschel (French, Paris 1855–1915 Paris)

Date: ca. 1900

Culture: French, Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye

Medium: Glazed stoneware

Dimensions: 19 1/2 in., 15.9 lb. (49.5 cm, 7.2 kg)

Classification: Ceramics-Pottery

Credit Line: Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection, Purchase, Acquisitions Fund; Louis V. Bell, Harris Brisbane Dick, Fletcher, and Rogers Funds and Joseph Pulitzer Bequest; and 2011 Benefit Fund, 2013

Accession Number: 2013.491

An influential interior designer, Hoentschel also made experimental ceramic forms with his friend and collaborator Jean Carriès. Following the tenets of Art Nouveau, Hoentschel combines the architectural and the organic in his design for this vase. The thick green glaze resembles corroded bronze.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/239564

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