Vase (Primary Title)
Vase ("love, dream, suffer") (Translation)
Vase ("aimer, rever, souffrir) (Former Title)
Joseph Mougin, French, 1876 - 1961 (Artist)
Pierre Mougin, French, 1880 - 1955 (Artist)
Mougin Frères Pottery, French, 1898 - 1950 (Manufacturer)
Marked (bottom, on the base): "J. Mougin" and "Mougin", ; and, "beneath the base: 5905, and Mougin/Ceramistes
Sydney and Frances Lewis Endowment Fund
An almost identical vase, like that at VMFA, now at the Musee de l'Ecole de Nancy, was displayed at an exhibition of the art collection of Eugene Corbin presented to the city of Nancy in 1935;
Related - but slightly different - example displayed at the Exposition Internationale de l'Est de la France, Nancy 1909 (see Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895-1914, vol. IV, Ceramics and Glass, Antique Collectors' Club, Suffolk, 1998, p. 352
Related - but slightly different - example displayed at the Exposition Internationale de l'Est de la France, Nancy 1909 (see Alastair Duncan, The Paris Salons 1895-1914, vol. IV, Ceramics and Glass, Antique Collectors' Club, Suffolk, 1998, p. 352
L'Ecole de Nancy, 1889-1909, Art Nouveau et Industries d'Art, Galeres Poirel, Nancy, 1999, ill. p. 333, no. 282 (similar example owned by the Musee de l'Ecole de Nancy);
Jacques G. Peiffer, Mougin Freres. Le desir du feu: Ceramiques Art Nouveau des ateliers de Paris et de Nancy 1896-1914, Musee Saint-Jean l'Aigle, Longwy, 1999;
Jacques G. Peiffer, Les freres Mougin, Sorciers du grand feu. Gres et porcelaine 1898-1950, Dijon, Faton, 2001 (same model at VMFA referenced and reproduced p. 40);
Roselyne Bouvier, Majorelle, un art de vivre moderne, Editions Nicola, Paris, 2009, photograph about 1935 of Corbin collection, p. 119;
Jacques G. Peiffer, Mougin Freres. Le desir du feu: Ceramiques Art Nouveau des ateliers de Paris et de Nancy 1896-1914, Musee Saint-Jean l'Aigle, Longwy, 1999;
Jacques G. Peiffer, Les freres Mougin, Sorciers du grand feu. Gres et porcelaine 1898-1950, Dijon, Faton, 2001 (same model at VMFA referenced and reproduced p. 40);
Roselyne Bouvier, Majorelle, un art de vivre moderne, Editions Nicola, Paris, 2009, photograph about 1935 of Corbin collection, p. 119;
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