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Article: Drawing on Japan: ceramics designed by the artist Felix Bracquemond pioneered the use of motifs drawn from Japanese art in 19th-century French decorative arts. Larry Simms publishes here two extraordinary overlooked porcelain services by Bracquemond that add greatly to our understanding of his career.
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Felix Bracquemond's contribution to the decorative arts as one of the first designers to use Japanese imagery is unchallenged. Indeed, three of his dinner services have become icons of Japonisme. His Service Rousseau, with its images of flowers, birds, and fish borrowed from Japanese prints, was exhibited to great acclaim at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867, where it was recognised for its revolutionary nature. At the Philadelphia Centennial in 1876 he unveiled his Service parisien, with Japanese-inspired imagery of the 12 months of the year depicted in terms of changing weather. In 1878 he exhibited his Service animaux, with Japanese ...
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