Four-handled vase, ca. 1887-1889

Glazed stoneware
Made in Delaherche’s workshop, rue Blomet, Paris
h. 25 1/4 in. (64 cm) - d. 12 in. (30,5 cm)
Signed Auguste Delaherche and numbered 2498

PROVENANCE : Me Couturier Nicolay, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13th November 1974, lot 15 - French private collection - Limoges Enchères, 19th May 2020, lot 158.

EXHIBITED : Probably presented at the Exposition de l’Union Centrale des Arts Décoratifs (UCAD), Paris, 1887 - Almost certainly shown at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris. Both MAD and V&A vases (2496 and 2499) were acquired in 1889 during the Paris World Fair which strongly substantiates the presence of our vase (2498) as well.

SIMILAR PIECES :
Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (vase n° 2496)
Victoria & Albert Museum, London (vase n° 2499)
Musée Adrien Dubouché, Limoges (vase n° 2505)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY (vase n° 3606).

LITERATURE : Victor Champier, ‘Les industries d’art à l’exposition universelle de 1889’, in Revue des Arts Décoratifs, 1889, plate 21 - Roger Marx, ‘Auguste Delaherche’ in Art et Décoration, February 1906, page 53.