Art Nouveau: “jugendstil” Beer Mug In Stoneware From Metlach - Villeroy & Boch

The plant world is the main source of inspiration for the Nancy School, precursor and leader of this artistic movement. Among plants, the ear of wheat is very represented and if, for example, the Daum brothers were very interested in it, it is above all Majorelle who constantly echoes it as we can see in his "Villa Majorelle" where the ear of wheat is omnipresent on the furniture. In this beer mug from the turn of the last century, find the ear of wheat in a more stylized interpretation "Jugendstil" of the name of the Art Nouveau style of Eastern and Northern Europe, more sober and linear than the school French. The Mettlach factory of Villeroy & Boch is very famous for its stoneware tankards decorated with various scenes of daily life and this type of interpretation is rather rare for them. The lid is, as always, made of pewter but this time together with stoneware

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