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Dish

ArtistDecorator: Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (French, 1865-1953)

Place of OriginFrance

Date1893-1895

Dimensions2 1/16 × 20 3/4 in. (5.3 × 52.7 cm)

MediumStoneware with luster glaze

ClassificationCeramics

Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Florence Scott Libbey Bequest in Memory of her Father, Maurice A. Scott

Object number

1991.57

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Label TextAround the turn of the 20th century a movement against the rise of mass-produced objects such as ceramics, furniture, glass vessels, and other decorative arts involved a number of international artists and artisans concerned with good design and handmade craft. Clément Massier came from a family of eminent ceramicists going back to the early 1700s and himself became a leading art potter whose designs and experimental glazes had a wide-ranging influence. From 1887 to 1895, Massier worked with painter Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer (1865–1953), who created nature-inspired decoration for Massier’s ceramics, like the Japanese-influenced leaping carp and stylized waves of this dish. Lévy-Dhurmer was a collector of Hispano-Moresque ceramic wares, which were created in medieval Spain under the rule of the Moors (see an example in the Cloister Gallery). The iridescent metallic glazes (called “luster”) of these wares influenced Massier to experiment with his own luster glazes.