C0037

Vase with a man smelling a flower

Ref Num.:C0037

Details

Date: 1935 –

Typology: Ceramics

Technique: Painted ceramics

Dimensions: 19.5cm

Signed: “Nogués 1935” bottom

Location

Museu del Disseny, MCB, 107.543

Description

Polychrome oval ceramic vase with a wide, low cylindrical neck. Decorated with humorous figures inspired by the illustrations in La Catalunya Pintoresca by Joan Prats (1919). Made in Gallifa. Image rights: Guillem Fernández-Huerta.

Provenance

Isabel Escalada’s bequest – 1969

Exhibitions

Palau de la Virreina, March 1967; Palau de la Virreina, March 1972

Bibliography

J. Barbeta, A. Casanovas, M. Gil and C. Vidal, Exposición Xavier Nogués, Barcelona 1873-1941, catalogue, Ayuntamiento de Barcelona, Museos de Arte, Palacio de la Virreina, March-April 1967, no. 1.195, p. 91. Cecília Vidal, Exposición: Legado Isabel Escalada Vda. Xavier Nogués, Palacio de la Virreina, Barcelona, 1972, cat. no. 327, p. 53.

Coauthors

Made in collaboration with Josep Llorens Artigas (ceramicist).