A FRENCH IRIDESCENT LUSTRE GLAZED EARTHENWARE 'LOIE FULLER' CHARGER

From the moment she took the stage in Paris on 5 November 1892, Loie Fuller entranced the audience through her dance; evoking organic forms, such as butterflies, flowers, and flames through a play of colored lights and the manipulation of the voluminous folds of diaphanous silks she wore. Loie Fuller's whirling, undulating silhouette, which embodied the fluid lines of Art Nouveau, inspired many images from the portraits of Toulouse-Lautrec and the posters of Jules Chéret and Alphonse Mucha to the sculptures of Pierre Roche and Théodore Rivière, as well as the photographs of Harry C. Ellis and Eugène Druet.  She became the personification and muse of the Art Nouveau aesthetic.