C0006

Vase (Figures in the Countryside)

Ref Num.:C0006

Details

Date: 1906

Typology: Ceramics

Technique: Glazed, polychrome porcelain

Dimensions: 20×11.5×11.5cm

Signed: –

Location

Museu del Disseny, MCB, 71.919

Description

In 1906, Xavier Nogués decorated a number of polychrome porcelain jugs made by Serra i Fiter. He bridged the post-modernista and noucentista generations. This vase shows a bucolic scene with figures enjoying the landscape. Image rights: Guillem Fernández-Huerta.

Provenance

MNAC acquisition – 1967

Exhibitions

Palau de la Virreina, March 1967

Bibliography

J. Barbeta, A. Casanovas, M. Gil and C. Vidal, Exposición Xavier Nogués, Barcelona 1873-1941, Palacio de la Virreina, March-April1967, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Museos de Arte, Barcelona, 1967, no. 1193, p. 91. Modernisme, cap a la cultura del disseny. Ajuntament de Barcelona, Museu del Disseny de Barcelona, Barcelona, 2020. Cecília Vidal Maynou (dir.), Xavier Nogués (1873-1941), Alfa Books, Fundació Xavier Nogués, Barcelona, 2021, p. 192.

Coauthors

Made in collaboration with Antoni Serra (ceramicist) at the Porcellana i Gres d’Art de Barcelona factory.