# Emile Decoeur artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/emile-decoeur/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T19:12:23.537Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1876-04-27
- Death date: 1953-08-16
- Nationality: French
- Common media: Ceramics, Glazed stoneware

## About Emile Decoeur

Émile Decoeur (1876–1953) was a French ceramicist whose authority records describe him as a studio potter, ceramic designer, and maker. His name also appears as Émile Decœur, an important spelling variant when matching collection and auction records. Publicly documented examples associated with Decoeur include glazed stoneware vases, grouped vessels, and tableware. Museum and authority profiles, including records from the British Museum, VIAF, and Wikidata, help distinguish the artist from similarly named makers and connect the alternative spellings of his surname. Collectors are most likely to encounter Decoeur through decorative ceramic objects rather than works on paper or canvas. The available source pack does not provide enough scholarly evidence to assign him confidently to a named movement or to summarize his training and workshop chronology, so this profile emphasizes the well-supported identity and material record instead.

## Common works and media

The collected evidence supports ceramics as Decoeur’s principal work type. Documented examples include glazed stoneware vases, rounded and convex-rim vessel forms, grouped ceramic vessels, and tableware. The source pack does not establish a comparable body of paintings, prints, drawings, sculpture, posters, or editioned works.

## Market and appraisal context

Decoeur’s market context centers on decorative ceramics, particularly vases, vessels, tableware, and examples described as glazed stoneware. An appraisal should first establish that the attribution and recorded maker name correspond to Émile Decoeur or the variant Émile Decœur. Material, glaze technique, object form, and date can then be compared with appropriately similar public auction records. The collected pack confirms an auction-record presence on Appraisily but does not include lot-level realized prices or major-auction-house commentary. It therefore supports categorization and comparable-sale research, not a prediction about price, scarcity, or market direction.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine public artist-identity research with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are available. Claims are limited when the collected evidence does not include detailed sale results.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22006202
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/38855849/
- British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG68265
- Bibliothèque nationale de France: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb15796073k
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89mile_Dec%C5%93ur
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C3%89mile_decoeur,_vasi_e_stoviglie_in_gres_smaltato,_ante_1937,_05.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emile_decoeur_vase_boule_1507561.jpg
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Emile_decoeur_vase_bord_convexe_1507563.jpg
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/emile-decoeur/