Platter
Félix Henri Bracquemond (Made by Haviland & Co., Auteuil Studio, Paris (French, 1872-1886))
c. 1874
- Medium
- Glazed earthenware and gilding
- Classification
- Ceramics
- Dimensions
- D.: 50.5 cm (19 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Paris
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Applied Arts of Europe
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Frances and Edward Blair
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This monumental ceramic platter illustrates the interconnectedness of the fine and applied arts in France during the era of radical artistic innovation around 1870. It was created by Félix Bracquemond, a printmaker and designer who was deeply embedded in the Parisian avant-garde. The thickly modeled stoneware form is enameled with an arrestingly bright landscape in yellow, orange, red and green. At the center of the composition a vibrant, craggy mountain rises above an ominously dark waterfall. The boldly delineated landscape elements recall Japanese woodblock prints, which Bracquemond admired.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
