Bamboo and Flying Crane

CLÉMENT MASSIER  (1845-1917) France
MASSIER ART POTTERY  Golfe Juan, France

“Bamboo and flying crane” vase   c. 1900

Earthenware tapering form with applied handles, hand painted with bamboo and flying cranes with gilt motives and details

Marks: Clement Massier  Golfe  Juan (block impressed letters)

For more information and other works by the Massier family see: Lost Paradise: Symbolist Europe (Montreal, Quebec: The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, 1995) p. 176, cat. 269; Jugendstil Art Nouveau, Floral and Functional Forms, Siegfried Wichmann (New York/Boston: Graphic Society/Little, Brown & Co., 1984) p. 45; Art Nouveau  Belgium France. Exh. cat. Yvonne Brunhammer et al. (Houston, TX: Institute for the the Arts, Rice University, 1976); La Céramique Art Nouveau, Edgar Pélichet, Michèle Duperrex (Paris: La Bibliothèque des Arts, 1976) p. 89

H:  14 1/8” x D: 9 5/8”