Vase with a view of Mount Fuji

Delphin Massier, Vallauris Manufacture de Faiences d’Art, France, 1900

Grey-body lustreware. Gold- and grey-toned view of Mount Fuji on a pink and blue-toned matte-gloss background.

H: 25 cm

Markings: DM Vallauris AM on base in the colour of the decoration.

UMP 9504

Purchased at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 in Paris for 150 francs as a vase executed in “reflet metallique”.

The model for this painting depicting the sacred Mount Fuji of Japan reflected in Lake Kawaguchi was probably a woodblock from the Thirty-Six Views of Mount Fuji series by famed Japanese painter and woodblock artist Katsushika Hokusai in 1823–1829.

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