Taxile Doat

Taxile Maximin Doat (1851–1939) was a French potter who is primarily known for his experimentation with high-fired porcelain (''grand feu'') and stoneware using the ''pâte-sur-pâte'' technique. His book on these techniques ''Grand Feu Ceramics'' was published in 1905 and helped spread his discoveries internationally. His influence is apparent in the types of glazes and approaches used in studio pottery in the twentieth century.

Biography

Doat worked at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres from 1877 to 1905, and was one of the artists who introduced the Art Nouveau style. Starting in 1895, Doat began working in a house at 47 rue Brancas in the village of Sèvres. These studio ceramics were different from the pieces he produced at the Sèvres factory, which often had small heads or figures in a Renaissance style, placed on fields relying on glaze effects for interest. He now replaced the typical classical subjects: garlands, gods, and drapery with new forms derived from the Japonisme that influenced French art pottery in the 1890s. He also began producing organic forms based on gourds, and employing new, grand feu glazes he invented.

In 1909, Doat was one of the three international leaders of ceramics hired as a professor, along with Frederick Hurten Rhead and Adelaïde Alsop Robineau, at the ''Art Academy and Porcelain Works,'' founded in a St. Louis suburb, University City, Missouri. Doat brought with him a collection of 172 examples of his work, which by this time was mostly in his vegetal style. He continued to work in this style in Missouri, making a limited number of shapes in molds, rather than being hand-thrown, with the examples differing greatly in terms of their individual glazing. However, he also taught his old pâte-sur-pâte style there, and some fine examples were produced by his students.Frelinghuysen, 290 He had a considerable influence on American art pottery.

The founder of University City, Edward Gardner Lewis, went bankrupt in 1911, and was no longer able to support the pottery studio. Doat was able to continue pottery production during 1912–14.David Conradsen and Ellen Paul Denker, ''University City Ceramics: Art Pottery of the American Woman's League'', Saint Louis Art Museum, 200

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Gallery

File:Clevelandart 1984.188 (cropped).jpg, Bottle with figures, 1895, Sèvres porcelain
File:Dish MET DT6046 (cropped).jpg, Dish with pâte-sur-pâte cameo inserts, 1900, Sèvres
File:Plaque, Taxile Maximin Doat designer, Sèvres, 1901 - Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - DSC08976.JPG, Plaque with pâte-sur-pâte cameo inserts, 1901, Sèvres porcelain
File:Dish MET DT5921 (cropped).jpg, Dish with classical head, 1905, Sèvres porcelain
File:Dish MET ES3458.jpg, Back of previous dish, with marks
File:Céramique Taxile Doat Gemeentemuseum Den Haag 16022016 1 (cropped).jpg, Dish with figures
File:Céramique Taxile Doat Gemeentemuseum Den Haag 16022016 2 (cropped).jpg, Dish with head
File:Vase (USA), 1913 (CH 18618561) (cropped).jpg, Vase, 1913 (USA)
File:Art Academy of People's University.jpg, Doat (at far right), Frederick Hurten Rhead (far left), and others at the Art Academy of People's University (now the Lewis Center) in University City, Missouri, celebrating its first high-firing kiln in April 1910
File:Studio of Taxile Doat.jpg, In his studio, published 1912
File:Ausstellung 2014 im Hetjens Museum über den französischen Keramiker Taxile Doat.jpg, Exhibition on Doat, Museum Kunstpalast, Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, 2014
File:Clevelandart 1971.140 (cropped).jpg, Dish with cameo head, porcelain and stoneware, 1890

References

*Frelinghuysen, Alice Cooney, ''American Porcelain, 1770-1920'', 1989, Metropolitan Museum of Art, , 9780870995408
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1851 births
1939 deaths
American potters
French potters
French emigrants to the United States
Art Nouveau designers
Art pottery