Rare Jean-Claude Ziegler Salt Glazed Stoneware Alhambra Vase c.1840
Rare Jean-Claude Ziegler Salt Glazed Stoneware Alhambra Vase c.1840
Height: 44cm
We have also posted details of a pair of Zeigler Vases on this website.
This vase, designed by the French artist and potter Jules Ziegler (1804-1856), was inspired by the shape and decoration of one of the famous 'Alhambra' vases. These were ten fourteenth- early fifteenth century examples recovered at the hilltop site of the Alhambra in Granada in southern Spain. The Alhambra site was much visited and studied in the nineteenth century and images made available to the wider public through prints and publications. This sparked a craze in 'Alhambresque' design.
A similar uncoloured example is held in the collection of the V&A Museum (see link)
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O122949/vase-ziegler-jules-claude/
The V&A writes:
Stoneware Vase About 1840 When this vase was acquire, it was described as being in the style of vases from Alhambra. The use of salt-glazed stoneware, however, recalls German pottery of the Renaissance period. Ziegler was a painter, architect and lithographer who also had a pottery in Voisnilieu, near Beauvais, between 1839 and 1844. France, Voisinlieu; designed and made by Jules-Claude Ziegler Stoneware, with salt glaze Museum no. 3100-1846 Bought at the exhibition by the Council of the School of Design, London'(22/04/2017)
VASE 3100-1846 'American and European Art and Design 1800-1900' This vase is a very early acquisition, bought in 1846 by the London School of Design. It was later illustrated in the publications by Philippe Burty and Digby Wyatt as wall as by Ziegler himself, as an example of the Alhambresque style. Ziegler, a painter, architect and lithographer, turned potter, specialising in salt-glazed stoneware, during a visit to Germany. He established a pottery at Voisinlieu, near Beauvais, in 1839 and on its closure in 1844 became Curator of the Museum and director of the École des Beaux-Arts at Dijon. Purchased by the Council of the School of Design(1987-2006)\
He painted beautiful vase patterns known as "Ziegler Pottery". Jules Claude Ziegler, who was appointed director of the Dijon School of Fine Arts in 1854, died in Paris in 1856.