Belgian Art Nouveau Stoneware Art Pottery Jar by Roger Guerin, Tobacco Pot , Bouffioulx Belgium 1920

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A nice pot or tobacco jar by Roger Guérin made around 1920-1922 in stoneware with a nice predominantly … more ROGER GUERIN

A nice pot or tobacco jar by Roger Guérin made around 1920-1922 in stoneware with a nice predominantly tan and green drip glaze. Guérin is a famous potter from the village of Bouffioulx near Charleroi Belgium. The jar is 17,2 cm (6,77 inches) high and has a diameter of 19 cm (7,48"). It is in very good condition. As often we can see two small chips on the inside of the lid. Invisible with the lid in place. The jar is numbered 183/C. Being model 183 size C. The piece is signed R. Guérin with the old "R in G" signature Guérin used from around 1919 till about 1922. In the decade that followed Guérin produced many model 183 pots but never they have such nice glaze as the rare old R in G signed 1920 ones.

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From the early Middle Ages onwards, pottery was made in the villages of Bouffioulx and Châtelet near the outskirts of the city of Charleroi. Due to the industrialization in the 19th century the activity and skills languished. When at the turn of the 20th century the painter Willem Delsaux came to live in Bouffioulx he got intrigued by the old tradition of the place and he took up pottery. Delsaux hired the most talented sons of local potters. Amongst them Edgard Aubry and Roger Guérin. Where Aubry soon left. Started to work for himself and became the most important Belgian art potter of the first half of the 20th century. Roger Guérin married the daughter of Delsaux and took over the company in 1918 when Delsaux left Bouffioulx and took up painting again. Guérin, less talented as an artist as Aubry but with outstanding skills and a good sense for business turned the Delsaux workshop into a thriving company with over 40 employees. It is not the mass production like the ikea under the Belgian art deco pottery Charles Catteau. But in the 20s and 30s the vases of the 100 series were produced in high volumes. The good high-end Roger Guérin pieces are hard to get by these days. Almost all is stuck in collections or at antique dealers. And most of what we see on offer online are either common Roger Guérin vases or (more often) incorrectly described junk made by his son Jules Guérin: mainly vases from the 60s, often with Aztecs or other historical figures, offered as prewar Roger Guérin ones.
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