French Aesthetic Movement Bronze Champleve-footed Urns,
Circa 1880

The pair of aesthetic movement champleve footed jardinieres with floral enameling over a gilt and patinated bronze body with bamboo handles and foliate legs and feet.

Dimensions: 8 inches High x 5 1/2 inches wide

Reference:
Aestheticism (also the Aesthetic Movement) was an art movement, both practical and theoretical, of the late 19th century supporting an emphasis on aesthetic value and effects- in preference to the socio-political themes and positions- of literature, fine art, music, and other arts. This meant that the art of the movement was produced with a view toward being beautiful first and foremost, rather than serving a moral, allegorical, doctrinal or another such purpose - "art for art's sake". It was particularly prominent in England during the late 19th century, supported by notable writers such as Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde, having started in a small way in the 1860s in the studios and houses of a radical group of artists and designers, including William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, reformers who explored new ways of living in defiance of the design standards of the age as revealed in the 1851 Great Exhibition at Hyde Park, London. Flourishing in the 1870s and 1880s, critic Walter Hamilton was the first writer to name the movement, publishing The Aesthetic Movement in England in 1882.

Aestheticism challenged the values of mainstream Victorian culture, as many Victorians believed that literature and art fulfilled important ethical roles.[4] Writing in The Guardian, Fiona McCarthy states, "the aesthetic movement stood in stark and sometimes shocking contrast to the crass materialism of Britain in the 19th century." By the 1890s, decadence, a term with origins in common with aestheticism, was in use across Europe.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aestheticism)

(Ref: NY9734-nprr)


Condition:
Alterations: Original Condition Unaltered
Imperfections: Some Imperfections
Condition Notes: Good

Origin:
France

Materials & Techniques:
Bamboo, Bronze, Enamel

Details:
What type of item is it? Vintage / Antique / Used
Country of Origin: France

Original Condition Unaltered; Some Imperfections; Good