New wine pot in enamelled porcelain by Alexandre Charpentier and edited by René Lahaussois.
Alexandre Charpentier was born into a working class family in the Marais, then a working class district of Paris. He was trained at the Beaux-Arts de Paris under Hubert Ponscarme, medallist.
Charpentier was one of the most important and prolific artists of the art nouveau; he collaborated with many ceramists workshops, such as Alexandre Bigot, Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, or Delaherche.
The new wine pot that we propose is completely in line with the work of the artist, where the plant kingdom is united with the human body. It was published in 1892 in pewter, then in 1893 in bronze by Hébrard. Our new wine jar is dated 1896 under the signature and is edited by René Lahaussois et Cie.
René Edouard Lahaussois was a student of Gustave Moreau at the Beaux-Arts de Paris. He founded with his brother-in-law Paul Chapuy the Manufacture de Porcelaine du Pont de Sèvres in 1895.
