Grand vase boule (Large ball vase)

For nearly thirty-five years, Étienne Leperlier used the particular technique of glass paste and its formidable coloring effects to create art objects and sculptures. After having somewhat abandoned decorative forms during the 1990s, Leperlier returned to them again and in a masterful manner at the beginning of the following decade, by considerably increasing the size of his cups, the diameter of which can reach thirty-five to fifty centimeters. . Inspired by the Art Deco style whose forms he appreciates, he applies the technique of woodturners to his expanded polystyrene models to create curves as tense as those of the decorative arts of 1925. For our Large Emerald and Cobalt Ball Vase, acquired with his daughter Juliette Leperlier, a wax applied to the sides of the model made it possible to obtain material effects, before it was reproduced in glass using skillful castings.