Drawing on Japan
Ceramics designed by the artist Félix Bracquemond pioneered the use of motifs drawn from Japanese art in 19th-century French decorative arts. Larry Simms publishes here two extraordinary overlooked porcelain services by Bracquemond that add greatly to our understanding of his career.
Larry Simms, Monday, 25th August 2008
11 Five Service fleurs et oiseaux jetés vases, c. 1876. Ht of tallest vase 22 cm
12 Top right: Service Rousseau table plate by Creil L.M. & Cie Montereau, designed by Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914), c. 1867. Faience, diam. 24 cm. Top left: Service figures et accessoires japonais dessert plate, c. 1876. Diam. 18.5 cm. Below: Service fleurs et oiseaux jetés luncheon plate, c. 1876. Diam. 22 cm
13 Four Haviland and Company tureens, the two on the left from the Service fleurs et oiseaux jetés, the two on the right with décor Fleurs Saxe, at the Philadelphia Centennial of 1876. Photograph by the Centennial Photo-graphic Company. The Free Public Library of Philadelphia, Print and Picture Collection
14 Top: Service fleurs et oiseaux jetés luncheon plate, c. 1876. Diam. 22 cm. Service parisien dinner plate, 1876. Diam. 25.8 cm
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