# Edmond Lachenal artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T15:21:50.090Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1855-06-03
- Death date: 1948-06-10
- Nationality: French
- Movements: French art pottery movement
- Common media: Ceramics and pottery, Sculpture, Painting, Engraving

## Portrait

![Edmond Lachenal](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Edmond_Lachenal.jpg/1280px-Edmond_Lachenal.jpg)
Atelier Nadar. Photographe · Public domain
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edmond_Lachenal.jpg

## About Edmond Lachenal

Edmond Lachenal (1855–1948), born Édouard Achille Lachenal, was a French ceramicist, potter, sculptor, painter, and engraver. French authority records identify him especially as a ceramicist and sculptor, while biographical sources place him among the key figures of the French art pottery movement. Collectors most often encounter his name in connection with ceramics, although the available identity records document a broader artistic practice. At auction, works associated with Lachenal can consequently appear in decorative-art, sculpture, painting, and works-on-paper categories. That breadth also makes careful entity matching important: an object should be assessed through its actual medium, markings, date, and attribution rather than through the artist name alone. The Edmond Lachenal identity is linked across established records maintained by Wikidata, IdRef, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and the Library of Congress.

## Common works and media

Public identity sources associate Lachenal primarily with pottery and ceramics, alongside sculpture, painting, and engraving. Auction catalogues may therefore place works bearing his name under decorative art, sculpture or mixed media, fine art and paintings, or works on paper and prints. Before choosing comparables, establish the object's actual material, dimensions, markings, inscriptions, date, condition, restoration history, and attribution. If a catalogue describes a work as an edition, verify its edition details rather than assuming that every Lachenal-associated object was produced in multiples.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisily's matched records document a substantial public-auction trail, but broad category labels should not substitute for object-level comparison. An appraisal should compare works of the same medium, dimensions, date or career period, condition, surface quality, and restoration history. Signatures, inscriptions, edition information, and attribution confidence also matter, as do provenance, exhibition history, catalogue references, subject, rarity, and current demand. Recent public sales are most useful when the lots are genuinely comparable and the reporting basis is consistent, since results may differ in their treatment of buyer's premium or fees. Private transactions, incomplete feeds, and later attribution changes may be absent, while authentication and direct condition inspection can materially alter a conclusion drawn from database records alone.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine artist identity research with matched auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Public records may be incomplete and should be interpreted alongside attribution, provenance, and condition evidence.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5338890
- IdRef: https://www.idref.fr/146598334
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb149051431
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Lachenal
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmond_Lachenal
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/edmond-lachenal/