Théodore Deck (1823-1891) Important Iznick Decor Vase

Large 19th century Ottoman style vase with a bulbous ceramic structure decorated with three large polychrome floral arrangements cobalt blue, turquoise, manganese, pink and underlined in black under a transparent colorless glaze depicting carnations, mandorlas and saz palms in the style from Iznik. Marked TH.DECK under the base. Good condition, dimensions: 27 cm high X 24 cm wide. (note a very similar model estimated between 3,000 - 5,000 GBP at Sotheby's London sale of October 27, 2021 "Arts of the Islamic world and India" see attached document). Théodore Deck began to explore the Iznik style in his ceramic practice in 1856 after studying works of this type at the Musée de Cluny in Paris. Her wonder at the vast combinations of floral patterns in Iznik's designs is evident in her work. Théodore DECK was director of the Manufacture de Sèvres and made pitchers, dishes and vases inspired by Iznik ceramics. Théodore Deck was born on January 2, 1823 in Guebwiller in Alsace in the department of Haut-Rhin and died on May 15, 1891 in Paris, is a French ceramist. Son of Richard Deck, silk dyer in Guebwiller, Joseph Théodore Deck, confronted at a very young age with the alchemy of colors, was passionate about this field and the physical sciences. After three years at the college of La Chapelle-Sous-Rougemont, near Belfort, the death of his father in 1840 forced him to return to Guebwiller and take over the family business with his older brother. The young team struggles to balance in a very competitive context, the business declines and is sold. The young Théodore made his choice and began his apprenticeship with the Master Poêlier Hügelin in Strasbourg in 1841, he stayed there for two years and finalized his training with a great tour of companionship in Germany, Austria and Hungary. Arrived in Paris in 1847, he was hired by the Bavarian earthenware manufacturer Vogt, but returned to Alsace during the 1848 revolution. Deck returned to Paris in 1851, hired in the workshop of the Widow Dumas, his work will be rewarded with the medal obtained by this factory at the Universal Exhibition of 1855. The Deck brothers created their company in 1858 and settled in 1859 at 46 boulevard Saint-Jacques, later the workshops moved to rue de Vaugirard. In addition to the production of stove tiles, those of facade facings and shaped ceramic pieces were soon added. First consecration for the Théodore Deck company in 1861, with a silver medal at the Salon Arts et Industrie, with parts covered with the famous Persian blue, which will make its reputation and which will later be called "blue Deck". New success at the Universal Exhibition in London in 1862, with Renaissance and Iznik style pieces and especially the gigantic Alhambra vase, later acquired by the South Kensington Museum. 1867, silver medal at the Universal Exhibition, the progress and technical advances that he puts forward are consecrated, in particular the inclusion of gold under cover. In 1869 Deck opened a store in Paris in the prestigious Opera district. 1873: Universal Exhibition in Vienna, success confirmed with the presentation of a planter, designed by Emile Auguste Reiber, two meters wide, with a panel four meters high in the background, a piece which is kept in Geneva at the Ariana Museum. Theodore Deck will be able to secure the collaboration of many fashionable artists, Jean-Charles Davillier, Legrain, Carrier, Emmanuel Benner, Albert Anker, Eugène Gluck, Raphaël Collin, Paul Helleu, Emille-Auguste Reiber, Amedée Jullien, Joseph Ranvier, the list is not exhaustive. These artists, in exchange for their work on the design and decoration of the ceramics, received remuneration corresponding to 50% of the value of the piece. Appointed in 1875 at the head of the commission for improvement of the Manufacture de Sèvres, he took over the management of this prestigious manufacture in 1887, a year which will also see the publication of his Treaty on Earthenware and in which he will relate all the developments of which he has benefited the profession of ceramist. He rests since 1891 in Paris at the Montparnasse cemetery. It was his friend Auguste Bartholdi who made his funerary monument on which is engraved the sentence: "He snatched fire from the sky". His pieces are present in many museums, among others, Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris, Museum of Florival collection Théodore Deck Guebwiller, Museum of Decorative Arts in Marseille, Museum Unterlinden Colmar, Museum of Printing on Fabrics Mulhouse, Metropolitan Museum New -York, Hermitage Museum Saint Petersburg, Vicoria & Albert Museum London, Gulbekian Foundation Lisbon.