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''Covered Lustre Jar with dragon design'' (no date)
1920

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''Handled Lustre Vase with Japanese landscape'' (no date)
1920

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Lustre ware

Hagen was proudest of her work in lustre; a low-fired overglaze colourant. On finished pieces the colours and tones are delicate and iridescent, but before firing lustres appear uniformly brown. Hagen used lustre to achieve a broad range of colours. Her technique required several applications of colour and several firings to complete a single piece.

Some of Alice Egan Hagen's painted pieces feature gold lustre.

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''Jug with figure of Plains hunter'' (no date)
1900

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''Lustre Bowl with nymph and peacock design'' (no date)
1930

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''Lustre Bowl'' (interior)(no date)
1930

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''Vase with pine cone decoration'' (no date)
1920

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''Lustre vase with Art Nouveau peacock design'' (no date)
1920

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Examples of work

There is a great variety in the kinds of images and motifs which appear in Alice Hagen's work. Some works depict naturalistic or figurative imagery while others have Asian imagery or Art Nouveau motifs. Her taste for such various decorative styles and images was informed by the eclecticism of the late 19th century. Hagen used published designs, illustrations, paintings and less often nature as the sources for her china decoration. Because of the popularity of china painting, books and journals with information on techniques and patterns for decoration were widely available, such Robineau's "Keramic Studio".