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Gallic Rooster
(18th and 19th Centuries )
Deck began his career as a stove-maker, working first in Vienna, where he produced stoves for Schönbrunn Palace, and, after 1847, in Paris. At the Exposition Universelle held in Paris in 1855, he was so impressed by the Minton factory's brightly colored majolica wares that he decided to produce his own. The following year, he opened a factory for "artistic faience." Inspired by the designs and colors of Turkish Iznik wares, he developed his own range of colors, including a distinctive turquoise known as "bleu Deck." Deck employed a number of noted artists to work for him and continued to exhibit in the various international exhibitions, winning a wide following both in England and America as well as in France.
Deck's extraordinary range of glaze colors is displayed in this rooster, a national emblem of France.
Provenance
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David Seidenberg, New York; Walters Art Museum, 1988, by purchase.
Geographies
France, Paris (Place of Origin)
Measurements
15 1/2 x 11 in. (39.3 x 27.9 cm)
Credit Line
Museum purchase, 1988
Location in Museum
Not on view
Accession Number
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In libraries, galleries, museums, and archives, an accession number is a unique identifier assigned to each object in the collection.
48.2537