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Tazza with lustre trial - 1860
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Tazza with lustre trial
This ornately decorated footed-tazza was a trial for lustre decoration carried out by Emile Lessore to instructions provided by Pietro Gaj. The piece is one of two in the Wedgwood Museum's collections. These trials were sold to the Wedgwood company as potential products. It dates from the 1860s.
This ornately decorated footed-tazza was a trial for lustre decoration carried out by Emile Lessore to instructions provided by Pietro Gaj. The piece is one of two in the Wedgwood Museum's collections. These trials were sold to the Wedgwood company as potential products. It dates from the 1860s.
- Type of object: Trials and experiments/lustre trials
- Mark: Unmarked
- Year first produced: 1860
- Body: Queen's ware, cream-coloured earthenware
- Material: Ceramic
- Decoration: Lustre
- Accession number: 4344
- Dimensions: 163 mm (daiameter), 35 mm (height)
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Emile Lessore
Maker
Emile Lessore - Maker
Emile Lessore studied painting in the studio of Ingres and exhibited regularly in the Paris salons for 38 years, winning his first medal in 1831. Lessore initially worked at the Sèvres porcelain factory before moving to Minton. In 1860 Lessore joined Wedgwood where he gained a greater reputation. His work is frequently signed. His work for Wedgwood was exhibited at the London International Exhibition of 1862 and the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867, and the Vienna Exhibition of 1873. In 1862 Lessore had made an agreement with Wedgwood to return to France where he settled at Marlotte but he continued to work for the company.
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Pietro Gaj
Associated
Pietro Gaj - Associated
Nineteenth-century Italian ceramic artist, thought by many to have re-discovered the lustre process.
