Attrib To: LAURENT BOUVIER FRENCH AESTHETIC MOVEMENT ART POTTERY BLACK PANTHER VASE Attributed

Attrib To: LAURENT BOUVIER FRENCH AESTHETIC MOVEMENT ART POTTERY BLACK PANTHER VASE

Attributed to: LAURENT BOUVIER (1840-1901) a large ovoid baluster form vase in glazed earthenware, with cylindrical neck, circa 1871-1872, finely incised and scarified decoration of large stylized geometric forms on a background of friezes of chevrons, balustrades, and cusps, main frieze of black panthers, over a bluish green frieze of square and diagonal geometric motifs.

DETAILS:
- Signature: Not Signed.
- Colored enamels: white, purplish, ocher, black, green, brown, and pink.
- Size: 22 1/8 inches.
- Condition: Some old professional repairs, mostly on rim, (see images).

PROVENANCE:
Lee A. Ault, New York (acquired from the above in March 1990)
Hence by descendent to present owner.

COLLECTION
Similar model residing in the collections of the Mus?e de S?vres - Cit? de la C?ramique and the Mus?e d'Orsay in Paris.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
The journal of the Society of Friends of the National Museum of Ceramics, n?20, 2011:
Marc Ducret, Laurent Bouvier: Between eclecticism and orientalism, piece reproduced p.103.
Condition Report: Some old professional repairs, mostly on rim, (see images).