Auguste Delaherche, French studio pottery high fired stoneware large vase, c1903

  

Size: 24.5 cm tall, about 19 cm wide. Condition: Very good condition, no chips cracks or restoration.

A superb large vase in high fired stoneware by one of the leading ceramicists of his day in the Art Nouveau period. The vase bears Auguste Delaherche's stamp on the base and the number 6548. This dates it to about 1903, when he had moved from Paris to Armentieres, near his native Beauvais. Auguste Delaherche (1857 - 1940) was a French ceramicist, who was a leading figure in French art pottery through the Art Nouveau period. Like other leading French potters of the period, he was intensely interested in ceramic glaze effects of colour and surface texture. He also drew on the traditional techniques of his the Beauvais region. He also moved in stages from making exclusively stoneware to only making porcelain. An article of 1920 in La France Art Journal said To possess in one's collection one of Delaherche's Gres Flambes is to proclaim oneself of the cognoscenti of modern ceramic art. There is nothing being turned out of kilns anywhere that can compare in contour or in colour with the alchemies that come out of this modern Prometheus' oven.