Taxile Doat

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. However, he also taught his old pâte-sur-pâte style there, and some fine examples were produced by his students. 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. == 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, Hetjens Museum, Düsseldorf, 2014 File:Clevelandart 1971.140 (cropped).jpg|Dish with cameo head, porcelain and stoneware, 1890 ==References==