Edmond Lachenal Iznik Plat

EDMOND LACHENAL (1855-1930) Large hollow circular dish with smooth edge in ceramic with polychrome floral decoration in blue, turquoise, red-brown and green on a white background. Model called in the Iznik genre. Signature "LACHENAL" in hollow and colored turquoise Model numbered N3 Diameter 29cm At the beginning of his career, in the 1870s, Lachenal learned the secrets of earthenware manufacturing from Théodore Deck. It was to him that he owes the discovery of Iznik earthenware, a city in Turkey formerly called Nicaea, whose compositions of palmettes, flowers and long stylized leaves he liked to reproduce, under a very shiny glaze. Established on his own account from 1880, Lachenal continued to manufacture these earthenwares of a lively polychromy testifying, like this pretty dish, to the importance he gave to Ottoman models.