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Clément Massier Vase, circa 1900 image 1
Clément Massier Vase, circa 1900 image 2
Lot 12

Clément Massier
Vase, circa 1900

4 October 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£800 - £1,200

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Clément Massier

Vase, circa 1900
Glazed earthenware.
23.7 cm high, 14 cm diameter
Underside painted CLEMENT MASSIER/GOLFE JUAN/A.M.

Footnotes

Provenance
Charles Holme, United Kingdom
Thence by descent to the present owner

In 1893, the English journalist, art critic and businessman, Charles Holme founded The Studio: An Illustrated Magazine of Fine and Applied Art, which he edited from 1895-1919. The Studio was greatly influential in championing the Art Nouveau and Arts and Crafts movements in Britain, Europe and the United States. Holme featured the work of French ceramist Clément Massier in the September 1899 issue of the magazine and it is around that time that Holme may have acquired the present vase. A period photograph illustrates the vase in the Arts and Crafts movement's Red House, the former home of William Morris (designed by his friend the architect Phillip Webb), where Holme resided from 1889-1903.

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