Flask with face, ca. 1890, French, Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, Glazed stoneware, H. 15 1/2 in.; wt. confirmed: 9.5 lb. (39.4 cm, 4.3 kg), Ceramics-Pottery, The grimacing face reveals the artist's gifts as a sculptor–his profession before becoming a ceramicist. Carriès made an important series of masks, inspired by Japanese Noh theater and the gargoyles and carved faces on Gothic church architecture
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Flask, face, ca, 1890, French, Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye, Glazed stoneware, H, 15 1/2, wt, confirmed, 9.5 lb, 39.4 cm, 4.3 kg, Ceramics-Pottery, grimacing, reveals, artist, gifts, sculptor– profession, becoming, ceramicist, Carriè, important series, masks, inspired, Japanese Noh, theater, gargoyles, carved faces, Gothic church, architecture
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