Art Nouveau Vase In Nancy Faience, Walter Amalric 19th Century, Art Nouveau Decor, Sevres Landscape

Old earthenware vase. Very beautiful lake decoration in the style of glass pastes from the end of the 19th century. Signature of the artist Walter Amalric. 10.5 cm high. Very beautiful gradient colors. Perfect condition Amalric Walter, born in Sèvres on May 19, 1870 and died in Lury-sur-Arnon on November 9, 1959, is a French glassmaker mainly known for his glass pastes. Amalric Walter received his initial training at the Manufacture de Sèvres. Self-employed, he produced earthenware and glass pastes. Compared to glass pastes, few earthenware pieces have survived to this day. His fame was recognized at the 1900 Universal Exhibition where he won a prize. It was most likely on this occasion that he was won over by the glass work of Albert Dammouse and Henri Cros. Collaboration with Henri Bergé at Daum In 1905, he joined the Daum crystal factory, which brought him fame in Nancy and Paris. With the help of Henri Bergé, head decorator at Daum, he created more than 100 models of brightly colored glass paste in the Art Nouveau style. At Daum, he created glass paste objects. The stained glass windows, works resulting from the collaboration between Walter and Bergé, aroused admiration during the international exhibition in Nancy in 1909. It was not so much their appearance as the technique of production that astonished and excited contemporaries: they were made of glass paste, without lead setting. This was the first time that such pieces were exhibited. The honorary diploma was awarded to Almaric Walter, Henri Bergé and Eugène Gall. The contribution of the ceramist and the master decorator. His collaboration with Maison Daum lasted until 1915. In 1925, during the famous international exhibition of decorative arts that marked the beginning of the Art Deco style, the two collaborators were once again rewarded. Creation of his own workshop In 1919, he created his own workshop on rue Claudot in Nancy. There, he developed, in particular with Henri Bergé but also other modelers, nearly 500 different models. Due to the complexity and slowness of implementing the glass paste technique, the number of copies per model was always low. He reproduced works by sculptors Alfred Finot, Jules Cayette, Joé Descomps-Cormier, Auguste Houillon, Auguste Rodin, etc. The workshop closed in 1935, most likely due to changes in artistic tastes and the lack of profitability of the business, with production costs remaining high due to the technique used, especially after the great global economic crisis of 1929. From this date onwards, Amalric Walter no longer produced any glass paste. Very little is known about his life from this point onwards. He left Nancy in 1940 during the German occupation and then returned in 1945. He died in 1959, blind and in great destitution, in Lury-sur-Arnon (Cher) where he had come to visit a friend who drowned during his stay. Techniques The technique used by Amalric Walter is more complicated than that of lost wax, despite the name he may have given to his productions, as evidenced by an advertising plaque in glass paste from his workshop. Indeed, if a wax model is created, it is only used to make the refractory mold in which is placed by brush, according to an extremely precise, tedious and delicate process, glass powder for the mass and colored enamel powder for the color