Handled Iridescent Vase
Design Date c. 1900
Designer Clément Massier (1844–1917, French)
Manufacturer Massier Pottery (founded 1883), Golfe-Juan, France
Media ceramic
Dimensions 4 x 2 5/8 x 2 5/8 inches
Clément Massier, born into a family of ceramists, started his own firm in Golfe-Juan, France in 1883. Inspired by reflective metallic glazes they had seen in Italy and Spain, Massier and his firm’s artistic director Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer unveiled their own luster glazes at the 1889 Paris Exposition to great acclaim. The shifting green and gold tones of the iridescent finish on this vase provide a fitting background for the painted decoration of leaves and organic shapes, naturalistic features commonly found on Massier’s Art Nouveau ceramics.
ON VIEW in Art Nouveau Gallery 4
Markings Signed "… MASSIER GOLFE- JUAN A. M." and impressed "CLEMENT MASSIER GOLFE JUAN A.M." and "2" in bottom
Credit Line Collection Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
Accession Number 2004.1578
