Large Earthenware Vase Signed Edmond Lachenal Decor Of Japanese Art Nouveau Flower Bouquets

Old & large earthenware vase. Japanese style flower bouquet decor. Work of the artist Edmond Lachenal. 27.5cm in height. Very good condition, a chip to report on the collar. Signed under the terrace.


Edmond Lachenal (1855-1948) draftsman, painter and sculptor, Edmond Lachenal was above all a remarkable ceramist. He worked for ten years at Théodore Deck, where he quickly became workshop foreman, before settling on his own in the Paris suburbs from 1880. He first produced earthenware in the Iznik style, then, from from 1890, he devoted himself to sandstone, then to flamed sandstone, always retaining a taste for Japanese forms and decorations. Shortly after 1900, Lachenal abandoned ceramics and turned to dramatic art, entrusting his studio to his wife and son Raoul in 1904. He plays comedy with Sarah Bernhardt, with whom the rumor lent him an affair. Remarried in 1913, he devoted himself to easel painting and pastel. (source Musée d'Orsay). His perfect technical mastery allowed him to approach all the ceramic varieties; its decorations and subjects, always in a naturalistic spirit, are innumerable. We particularly owe him a very fine enamel, with an extremely silky appearance and texture, due to the use of hydrochloric acid.