Lot 42
JOSEPH MOUGIN (1876-1961)
ÉPIS VASE
Auction: Art Nouveau & Art Deco | Lots 17 to 118 | 25 June 2026 from 2pm
Description
designed 1921
glazed stoneware
moulded130.J, incised Mougin Nancy, and inscribed K LARGE
Dimensions
29.4cm high
Footnote
In 1896 Joseph Mougin began studying sculpture at the École des Beaux Arts, in Paris, under the sculptor Louis Ernest Barrias. However, after experimenting with ceramics, he abandoned his studies and with his brother Pierre focussed on ceramics. Together they exhibited at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900. During the following year, Joseph spent time with his friend Ernest Baudin, a director at Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres and met Georges Vogt. Clearly, he was eager to learn, and his other mentors include Henri Bergé, Louis Castex, Louis Majorelle, and Pierre Roche. Nancy was his birthplace and in 1904 he collaborated with friends there at Société Lorraine des Amis Arts, including Alfred Finot, Victor Prouvé and Ernest Wittman. Perhaps inspired by this, he moved back to Nancy in 1905. Between 1923-1933 he worked with Keller & Guerin at Lunéville and in 1925 won a Grand Prix at the Paris Exposition internationale des arts décoratifs et industriels modernes. Much of his ceramic work is either stoneware, often with a crystalline glaze, or porcelain.
