Luster Glaze Shamrock vase - A.S.B. - Limoge - ca 1890

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Irridescent Shamrock Vase - A.S.B. Limoge - ca 1890 This pretty little vase is one of dozens of pieces from Clement & Delphine Massier, Dominique Zumbo and others I will be listing in the coming weeks. The creation of many of the signature glazes that so typify Massier ceramics can be traced to an Italian ceramist and artist hired by the Massier's in 1879, Gaetano Gandolfi. However, the first metallic luster glazes arrived with Lucien Levy-Dhurmer in 1887 as artistic director. These beautiful glazes were reminiscent of Moorish ceramics. Clement Massier won a gold medal for these spectacular glazes at the Exposition Universelle de Paris in 1889. This vase has the dazzling irridescent metallic luster glaze typical of Massier, but the markings leave us with questions for attribution. It has irridescent bronze clover/shamrocks on a gold luster underglaze. This piece changes color in different light, with the clover taking on a blue/green irridescense. I believe t is some minor restoration near the rim, and also on either side of the protuberances near the base. I have photo'd these close up. No amount of research has helped me definitively attribute this piece. It is signed in glaze on the base, "A.S.B." and what looks like "Limoge". We think it could be from the Got-Barbat area of France, w Frederic Danton practiced for A.S.B. Limoge. read more

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