1910s Pink French Porcelain Crystalline Vase Mougin Nancy

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A crystalline-glazed porcelain vase, produced by the Mougin brothers circa 1910.

A sumptuous crystalline glaze covers this porcelain vase, made … Read more A crystalline-glazed porcelain vase, produced by the Mougin brothers circa 1910.

A sumptuous crystalline glaze covers this porcelain vase, made by the Frères Mougin around 1910. After studying ceramic techniques at Sèvres, Joseph Mougin joined brother Pierre in founding a kiln at Nancy. This crystalline porcelain vase was made before the war, the period which was the height of the brothers’ artistic production and which is categorized by elegant Art Nouveau forms.

“Here are the fired stonewares of the Mougin brothers, with pure curves and strange crystallization. Their laborious and often thankless research has been crowned with the most decisive successes and today they take pleasure in realizing productions that can compete with the rarest and most precious.”
- Rapport général de l’Exposition internationale de l’Est de la France à Nancy en 1909

Dimensions: 11 1/2 in. H x 7 in. Dm at widest part (29 cm H x 18 cm Dm)
Condition: Excellent. Fine allover crazing. Chip to footrim measuring approximately 1 ¾ in. in length, not visible while on display.

Jacques G. Peiffer, Les frères Mougin, Sorciers du grand feu: Grès et porcelain 1898-1950 (Dijon, Fr: Editions Faton, 2001). See less