The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 25, 2024

Vase

Vase

c. 1928
(French, 1882–1960)
Diameter: 16.6 cm (6 9/16 in.); Overall: 22 cm (8 11/16 in.)
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

This vase references African masks, a popular genre of collecting in 1920s Paris.

Description

A renewed interest in African art arose from the colonial aspirations of France in northern Africa after the First World War. African forms, color, pattern, and decorative motifs appeared in every genre, referencing the spirit of a faraway land. While decorators created whole interiors in an African style, some artisans focused on African themes and symbols of the culture in their work.
Celebrated for the bold forms and expressive castings of his works, Maurice Marinot became one of the most acclaimed glass artisans of his time.
  • W. M. M. “A Glass Vase by Maurice Marinot.” The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 16, no. 10 (1929): 181–83. Mentioned: pp. 181-183 www.jstor.org
    Hawley, Henry H. Glass Today: American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997. Reproduced: p. 22
    Coffin, Sarah D., and Stephen Harrison. The Jazz Age: American style in the 1920s. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2017. Reproduced: fig. 45, p. 27; Mentioned: p. 26
    Marinot, Maurice, Jean-Luc Olivié and Cristina Beltrami. Maurice Marinot: The Glass, 1911-1934. Milano: Skira, 2019. Mnetioned & reproduced: pp. 122-123 C
  • Maurice Marinot. The Glass 1911-1924. Le Stanze del Vetro, Venice, Italy (organizer) (March 24-July 28, 2019).
    The Jazz Age: American Style in the 1920s. Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, NY (April 7-August 20, 2017); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 30, 2017-January 14, 2018).
    Glass Today: Recent American Studio Glass from Cleveland Collections. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 22-September 14, 1997).
    Circa 1930. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 12-October 31, 1983).
    Arts and Crafts in Detroit 1906 - 1976: The Movement, The Society, The School. The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (organizer) (November 26, 1976-January 16, 1977).
    Art Deco. Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 6-August 1, 1971).
  • {{cite web|title=Vase|url=false|author=Maurice Marinot|year=c. 1928|access-date=25 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1929.114