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Vase
Creator
Jean-Désiré Ringel d'IllzachFrench Artist · 1847–1916
All works by this person →> M. Ringel understands his art in the manner of Edgar Allan Poe. > > --Henri Bouchot, Parisian author and critic, 1983. Jean-Désiré Ringel d'Illzach was born in Illzach, in Alsace-Lorraine, France, the son of a Protestant pastor. By fifteen, he had moved to Paris to study music and art. He studied sculpture under Julius Hähnel in Dresden, and then worked in Paris in the studios of François Jouffr
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- 1889
- Medium
- Bronze and copper
- Culture
- French
- Department
- Decorative Arts
- Institution
- Getty Museum
This monumental bronze vase was first exhibited at the *Exposition Universelle* (World's Fair) in Paris in 1889. Its surfaces teem with applied life casts of spiders, a juniper branch, peacock feathers, lace, ribbons, and snails. This fantastical imagery is reminiscent of the art of contemporary Symbolist artists, who were preoccupied by visionary themes. Its scale is also consistent with other virtuoso works of art during the last decades of the 1800s. Yet its overall form and twisted, fluted handles are directly based on an ancient Roman volute krater (mixing vessel) from Pompeii that the sculptor drew during a visit to the archaeological museum in Naples in 1877.
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