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Because of the high quality of his art pottery, he was known by his contemporaries as the 'poet of stoneware'. In 1887 he became friends with Ernest Chaplet, who started the rebirth of studio pottery in France and later bought his Paris studio. Over the next ten years he produced japanese-inspired work featuring the use of thick glazes. His experimentation met with success when he was awarded a gold medal at the 1889 Exposition Universelle in Paris. In 1904, after a brief Art Nouveau phase, he worked increasingly with porcelain, usually making small, unique pieces, often done with aventurine or honey-colored drip-glazes. In 1910, he started to create porcelains decorated in the manner of Chinese Fukien ware. |
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