Vase / François-Emile Décorchemont
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 1972/2.228
- Title
- Vase
- Artist
- François-Emile Décorchemont
- Artist Nationality
- French
- Artist Life Dates
- (1880 - 1971)
- Medium and Support
- brown, yellow, and green glass
- Object Creation Date
- 1904-1971
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- France (nation)
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- France (nation)
- Style/Group/Movement
- glass
- Inscription
- Stamped on side near base: DECORCH MON... Stickers on side: 310 Made in France Sticker on base: 62/51A (?) Ti 3/...Brown Shell Color pate de verre bowl by Decorcha
- Dimensions
- 16.5 cm x 14.3 cm (6 1/2 in. x 5 5/8 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Primary Object Type
- glass
- Physical Description
- Inverted cone-shaped vessel of brown, yellow and green glass
- Subject Matter
- In the early 20th century the refined opulence of glasswork, typified by Louis Comfort Tiffany and the Arts and Crafts movement, gradually gave way to a more modernist aesthetic that emphasized cleaner lines and plain undecorated surfaces. Glassmakers working in this modernist vein began to reject superfluous surface ornament and focused instead on the total integration of form and design. François-Emile Decorchemont, who was initially inspired by the Art Nouveau movement before developing more austere idioms, is perhaps best known for his technique of coloring glass to make it resemble translucent stones.
- Secondary Keywords
- containers
- containers by form
- descriptors
- glass and glassmaking mixtures
- inorganic material
- materials
- materials by composition
- modern and contemporary art
- objects we use
- vessels
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 508 x 626
- File Size
- 31 KB
- Record
- 1972/2.228
- Link to this Item
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"Vase; François-Emile Décorchemont." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1972-sl-2.228/1972_2.228.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 23, 2024.
