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Émile Decoeur

Émile Decœur (1876-1953), vases and bowls, 1912-1937<br/> &copy; madd-bordeaux - M. Delanne
Émile Decœur (1876-1953), vases and bowls, 1912-1937
©madd-bordeaux - M. Delanne
Deposit of the Musée national de céramique, Sèvres, 1978 - Inv D 2008.0.81 to 109

Émile Decœur was one of the greatest French ceramists of the first half of the 20th century. In his successive workshops in the Paris region, he produced shaped pieces in stoneware and porcelain, which very quickly met with the admiration of his peers. He offers an infinite palette of colours and materials, and forms of great sobriety, inspired as much by Greco-Roman antiquity as by Japanese art...

object n°47 (pdf - 155.66 Ko)