Vase de Cerny
- Designer
- Hector Guimard, French, 1867–1942
- Date
- 1904
- Material
- Glazed stoneware
- designed in
- Cerny, Île-de-France region, France, Europe
- made in
- Sèvres, Île-de-France region, France, Europe
- made in
- Sèvres, Île-de-France region, France, Europe
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Collection
- Decorative Arts and Design
- Current Location
- On View, Gallery 135
- Dimensions
- 10 3/4 x 4 7/8 x 5 in. (27.3 x 12.4 x 12.7 cm)
- Credit Line
- Director's Discretionary Fund
- Rights
- Public Domain
- Object Number
- 15:2006
NOTES
Nature was the primary source of inspiration for the French architect Hector Guimard, who animated his designs with abstract clusters of buds, unfurling plant forms, and writhing tendrils. Guimard sought a new mode of expression that broke from historical styles. Rather than applying the ornament as separate decorative elements, he worked like a sculptor, fusing structure and ornament, often creating linear whiplash contours that conveyed movement. During the Art Nouveau period, architects worked in a variety of materials, designing not only entire buildings and architectural ornaments, but their interiors and furnishings as well.
Provenance
- c.1980
Private Collection
c.1980 - 2005
Olivier Chevalier, Paris, France, and Patrick Locqueneux, Paris, France, purchased from private collection [1]
2005 - 2006
Jason Jacques Inc., New York, NY, purchased from Olivier Chevalier and Patrick Locqueneux [2]
2006 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Jason Jacques Inc. [3]
Notes:
[1] According to an email letter from Jason Jacques to Cara McCarty, Saint Louis Art Museum, Jason Jacques states that he purchased the object from Olivier Chevalier and Patrick Locqueneux, Paris, France. In this email, Jason Jacques states that Patrick Locqueneux informed him in both verbal and email correspondence that the object was purchased by Patrick Locqueneux about twenty-five years earlier from an individual, who Patrick Locqueneux believed to be the original owner, declining to provide any further identity [SLAM document files].
[2] See Note [1].
[3] Invoice dated March 20, 2006, and Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 20, 2006.
Private Collection
c.1980 - 2005
Olivier Chevalier, Paris, France, and Patrick Locqueneux, Paris, France, purchased from private collection [1]
2005 - 2006
Jason Jacques Inc., New York, NY, purchased from Olivier Chevalier and Patrick Locqueneux [2]
2006 -
Saint Louis Art Museum, purchased from Jason Jacques Inc. [3]
Notes:
[1] According to an email letter from Jason Jacques to Cara McCarty, Saint Louis Art Museum, Jason Jacques states that he purchased the object from Olivier Chevalier and Patrick Locqueneux, Paris, France. In this email, Jason Jacques states that Patrick Locqueneux informed him in both verbal and email correspondence that the object was purchased by Patrick Locqueneux about twenty-five years earlier from an individual, who Patrick Locqueneux believed to be the original owner, declining to provide any further identity [SLAM document files].
[2] See Note [1].
[3] Invoice dated March 20, 2006, and Minutes of the Collections Committee of the Board of Trustees, Saint Louis Art Museum, June 20, 2006.
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