Circular Plaque
Manufacturer
Joseph-Théodore Deck
(French, 1823 - 1891)
Dateca. 1870
MediumEarthenware with enamel
DimensionsOverall: 2 3/8 × 18 3/4 inches (6.03 × 47.63 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: the Lillian M. Diveley Fund
Object number2011.30
SignedImpressed on bottom: TH DECK
On View
On viewGallery Location
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Collections
DescriptionLarge circular dish with slightly recessed well, decorated with dark blue and yellow stylized palmettes around the rim, yellow rosettes within a medium blue inner band, yellow five-petalled flowers and leaves against the same medium blue with a central yellow and green central abstracted floral motif. Exhibition HistoryInventing the Modern World:
Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs 1851-1939. The Nelson-Atkins Museum
of Art, Kansas City, MO April 14– August 19, 2012, hors. cat.
This brilliantly colored plaque combines designs from Islamic metalwork with the vivid coloring of Islamic ceramics. Théodore Deck was the foremost innovator in French ceramics during the mid-1800s. He was fascinated with reproducing lost ceramic glazes, especially those made from the 1400s through the 1600s in Iznik, Turkey. The peacock-blue glaze he reinvented came to be known as Deck blue.
Private Collection, United States by 2011;
With H. Blairman & Sons, London by 2011;
Purchased from H. Blairman & Sons by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO 2011.
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