Philippe-Joseph Brocard is a master enameller and orientalist. Born in Liège in 1831 and died in Meudon in 1896.
He began his career as a restorer of objets d'art and antiques. It is the discovery of Islamic glass objects (see Ismail Pasha) that fascinates him, to the point where he rediscovers and applies the former the complex technique of the Syrian glassmakers of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, with application to the Glass of polychrome and gold enamels1. He manages to master this forgotten technique to the point where it can be difficult to distinguish his pieces from the originals.
It innovates by developing a particular technique of cloisonne, to surround the enamels that it applies. On August 20, 1891, he filed a patent with the National Institute of Industrial Property: "For a new process for the application of enamels on glass and on straw" (Patent No. 215619).
The British Museum preserves one of its works, an enamelled glass lamp of oriental style.
Philippe-Joseph Brocard is known as the precursor of the Art Nouveau movement.
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