19c Victorian George Jones Pâte-Sur-Pâte Vase

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A great and rare George Jones pate sur pate vase with an Art Nouveau woman on it. Pate sur Pate … Read more A great and rare George Jones pate sur pate vase with an Art Nouveau woman on it. Pate sur Pate is a very rare and difficult technique. Pâte-sur-pâte (a French term meaning "paste on paste") is a method of porcelain decoration in which a relief design is created on an unfired, unglazed body by applying successive layers of white slip (liquid clay) with a brush. The effect is somewhat similar to other types of relief decoration such as Jasperware, but as a mould is not normally used, the artist is able to achieve translucency. To understand pâte-sur-pâte fully, we need to go back to France in the 1850s, and an accident that occurred at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. They were trying to reproduce a decorative technique from a Chinese vase, but misinterpreting the vase, the experiment took them along an altogether different path from the Chinese potter. Be it luck or fate they perfected what became universally known as pâte-sur-pâte. Circa 1900 this vase has restoration along the top and to the body. Looks perfect and displays well. Great and rarely found piece. See less