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Article: Ceramics from University City, Missouri.
- Article from:
- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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Between 1909 and 1914 an international faculty of ceramic artists worked in an art academy and porcelain works in University City, Missouri, on the western outskirts of Saint Louis. The leader was Taxile Doat, whose fame in the United States was established when his treatise on French methods of making high-fired porcelain and stoneware was published in 1903. (1) These ceramists produced a diverse body of exquisite porcelain vases and other decorative ceramics. In general their work has remained relatively unknown despite the fact that one of the most famous examples of American ceramics, the Scarab Vase (see Pls. II, III), was made there in 1910 by one of the most ...
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