Called the “poet of stoneware,” Auguste Delaherche (1857–1940) was a leading figure in France’s ceramic renaissance. Delaherche was born in Beauvais, where he showed an early interest in the arts. He began his career in ceramics in 1883 working for a company that produced inexpensive utilitarian wares. In 1887, he acquired Ernest Chaplet’s Haviland studio in Paris, where he focused on artistic stoneware inspired by Asian ceramics (
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