Two Rare Jean-Claude Ziegler Salt Glazed Stoneware Alhambra Vases c.1840

Two Rare Jean-Claude Ziegler Salt Glazed Stoneware Alhambra Vases c.1840

Height: 30cm

A similar example held in the collection of Museum of the Pottery of the Chapelle aux Pots, France

Jean-Claude Zeigler (1804-1856), the French artist and potter, 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.