Cleveland Museum of Art

Vase

Georges de Feure

Date

c. 1903

Medium

porcelain with colored glazes and gilding

Culture

France, Limoges

Department

Decorative Art and Design

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The porcelains that de Feure conceived for execution by a Limoges factory represent perhaps the finest of all wares fabricated in this medium and done in the art nouveau style. This vase is particularly distinguished because of its beautiful glazes and gilding. A painter and graphic artist of considerable accomplishment, de Feure worked within the artistic modes of Symbolism and French art nouveau. In the years around 1900, he was employed by Samuel Bing to supply decorative arts for his Parisian firm, L'Art Nouveau. The artist designed furniture and ceramics for Bing, including this vase.

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