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| Keywords: Joseph-Théodore Deck - Gallic Rooster - Walters 482537.jpg Deck began his career as a stove-maker working first in Vienna where he produced stoves for Schönbrunn Palace and after 1847 in Paris At the Exposition Universelle held in Paris in 1855 he was so impressed by the Minton factory's brightly colored majolica wares that he decided to produce his own The following year he opened a factory for artistic faience Inspired by the designs and colors of Turkish Iznik wares he developed his own range of colors including a distinctive turquoise known as bleu Deck Deck employed a number of noted artists to work for him and continued to exhibit in the various international exhibitions winning a wide following both in England and America as well as in France Deck's extraordinary range of glaze colors is displayed in this rooster a national emblem of France ca 1880 earthenware with glazes cm 39 3 27 9 accession number 48 2537 924 David Seidenberg New York Walters Art Museum 1988 by purchase Museum purchase 1988 place of origin Paris France Walters Art Museum license Théodore Deck Collections of the Walters Art Museum 1880 works in France Statues of cocks Earthenware | ||||
