Plat, genre Iznik

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Edmond Lachenal
Plat, genre Iznik
vers 1885
faïence
DM. 23,5 cm.
Don Jacqueline Libois par l'intermédiaire de la société des Amis du musée d'Orsay, 1999
© Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Patrice Schmidt
Edmond Lachenal
Plat, genre Iznik
vers 1885
faïence
DM. 23,5 cm.
Don Jacqueline Libois par l'intermédiaire de la société des Amis du musée d'Orsay, 1999
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Edmond Lachenal
Plat, genre Iznik
vers 1885
faïence
DM. 23,5 cm.
Don Jacqueline Libois par l'intermédiaire de la société des Amis du musée d'Orsay, 1999
© RMN-Grand Palais (Musée d’Orsay) / Hervé Lewandowski
Edmond Lachenal (1855 - 1915)
Artwork not currently exhibited in the museum

At the beginning of his career in the 1870s, Lachenal was introduced to the secrets of making earthenware by Théodore Deck. It was through him that Lacheneal discovered the ceramics of Iznik, a town in Turkey formerly known as Nicea, whose designs with fan palms, flowers and long stylised leaves under a brilliant translucent glaze he liked to reproduce. Once established in his own right in 1880, Lachenal continued to produce these ceramics in a range of vivid colours, as in this beautiful plate, demonstrating the importance he gave to Ottoman models.

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