Ovoid Bottle (Primary Title)
Ovoid Bottle with Stopper (Alternate Title)
Maurice Marinot, French, 1882 - 1960 (Artist)
At the beginning of his career, Maurice Marinot was a member of the Fauvres, a group of artists who worked in vivid, bright colors. In 1911 he visited a small glass studio where he became fascinated by molten glass with colors similar to his paintings. He developed into one of the most creative early 20th-century artists working in glass. Marinot’s first pieces were handblown glass vessels covered with one layer of enamel. Later, he decorated his glass vessels with many layers of enamel, each of which had to be separately fired in the kiln. Marinot displayed the enamel vase in this case at the Autumn Salon in Paris in 1913. The handblown bottle with stopper includes internal decoration (achieved by introduction color between layers of glass) and a surface carved away by an acid-etching technique. Because of the complex nature of his artistic process and the destruction of many pieces during World War II, Marinot’s work is rare.
signed on the bottom: "Marinot"
Two labels on bottom: "14.539" and "1200" (labels are in curatorial file)
Sydney and Frances Lewis Endowment Fund
International Exhibition, San Francisco, Golden Gate, 1939;
Twentieth Century Glass, European and American, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950
Twentieth Century Glass, European and American, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1950
©artist or artist’s estate
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