Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat: Colour across form

Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat (1844–1910) used stoneware vessels to explore both sculptural form and variations in glaze. These six works bring together a bowl, a collaborative figurative vase and four smaller vessels. The sequence moves between broad and narrow silhouettes, allowing the surface of each piece to hold the reader’s attention. In Vase with face, the sleeping figure is credited to Dalpayrat’s collaboration with Alphonse Voisin-Delacroix. Both makers remain in the caption.

Two pale panthers curl around a rounded bowl with red and blue glaze.
Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, Bowl with two panthers, 1894–95. Stoneware. 24.3 × 35.9 × 29.5 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013.482. Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain / Open Access. Source.
A tall gourd-shaped vase with a narrow neck and mottled green, red and cream glaze.
Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, Vase, c. 1890. Stoneware. 33.9 × 16.4 cm (overall). The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979.9. Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0. Source.
A rounded short vase with a small opening and dense yellow, green and blue markings.
Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, Vase, c. 1900. Stoneware. 10.5 cm (overall); diameter 9.6 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997.279. Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0. Source.
A tall pale vase curves outward above a sleeping face emerging from its darker base.
Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat and Alphonse Voisin-Delacroix, Vase with face, 1892–93. Stoneware. 64.8 × 42.9 × 40.6 cm. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2013.481. Image: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Public Domain / Open Access. Source.
A vase with a wide blue shoulder, short red neck and long red foot.
Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, Vase, c. 1900. Stoneware. 19.7 cm (overall). The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1975.119. Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0. Source.
A red pear-shaped vase with scattered blue and dark patches below a narrow rim.
Pierre-Adrien Dalpayrat, Vase, c. 1900. Stoneware. 17.5 cm (overall); diameter 12.3 cm. The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1997.286. Image: The Cleveland Museum of Art. CC0. Source.