Ernest Chaplet (1835 in

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– 1909 in

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) was a French designer, sculptor and ceramist. He was a key figure in the French

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movement, and his works are held in international public collections such as the

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, Paris. Having worked in industry for over 30 years, he opened an

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with the sculptor Albert-Louis Dammouse in 1882, producing

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often influenced by Japanese designs and Chinese prototypes. From 1875 he worked with

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.Ernest Chaplet
.

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. Retrieved 10 October 2015 Chaplet became head of the Parisian workshops of Charles Haviland of Haviland & Co. in 1882, working in

and

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for them. He worked on ceramics with

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from 1886; together they created some 55 stoneware pots with applied figures or ornamental fragments, multiple handles, painted and partially glazed. He later worked with

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and

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. From 1887 Chaplet took up permanent residence at

, often collaborating with the ceramics manufacture

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. He won acclaim at the 1900

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, but lost his sight in 1904, after which his son Emile Lenoble took over his studio. He committed suicide in 1909.''The Connoisseur: An Illustrated Magazine for Collectors, Volume 192''. Sampson Low, Marston & Company, 1976. 246

Gallery

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Stoneware Stoneware is a rather broad term for pottery or other ceramics fired at a relatively high temperature. A modern technical definition is a Vitrification#Ceramics, vitreous or semi-vitreous ceramic made primarily from stoneware clay or non-refracto ...

vase with swallow, mid-1880s File:Tankard with man drinking from jug MET DP704022 (cropped).jpg,

tankard with man drinking from jug, Haviland & Co., mid-1880s

References

Sources

*Benicka, Corinne. ''Great Modern Masters''. Bookthrift, 1980. *D'Albis, Jean. ''Ernest Chaplet''. Knowledge Press, 1976 *Thiébaud, Philippe. ''La Revue du Musée d'Orsay'', nr 2, February 1996, Paris {{DEFAULTSORT:Chaplet, Ernest 19th-century French sculptors French male sculptors French ceramists 20th-century French sculptors 20th-century French male artists 1835 births 1909 deaths People from Sèvres Art pottery French potters 1909 suicides Suicides in France 19th-century French male artists