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Vase — Artus Van Briggle

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Written by: Victoria DuboisContributing Writer · Furniture & Decorative Arts
Ceramics & Glass · Catalogue no. 55265
Artus Van Briggle

Vase

StatusReference work · Not for sale
Held byCleveland Museum of Art
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Artist / MakerArtus Van Briggle
Date1905
Culture / OriginAmerica
Mediumearthenware
DimensionsDiameter: 10.5 cm (4 1/8 in.); Overall: 28.3 cm (11 1/8 in.)
DepartmentDecorative Art and Design
TypeCeramic
About the Artist

American art potter, born in Felicity, Ohio, trained as a painter at the Academy of Art in Cincinnati, where he was employed by the Rookwood Pottery. In 1893 he was given a scholarship to study painting in Paris, where he spent three years. Back in Cincinnati he resumed work as a painter of underglaze decorations at the Rookwood pottery but also began to experiment with matt glazes. Suffering from tuberculosis he left in 1899 and settled in Colorado Springs, Colorado.… Full biography →

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Image & data: Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0 / Public Domain.

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