Art Deco Cracked Porcelain Adonis Sculpture by F.trinque

Description

Beautiful sculpture cracked earthenware, included a very nice young man smiling.
The beauty of the face of this young man … more Beautiful sculpture cracked earthenware, included a very nice young man smiling.
The beauty of the face of this young man is depicted in the purest Art Deco style, emphasized even more by the treatment of the hair very in keeping with the period.
This beautiful piece is signed on the back F. TRINQUE.

Toast was a French sculptor who was mainly active in the years 1920-30.
If Trinque is relatively unknown, it is now an artist popular with collectors, mainly because of his great skill and style, clearly influenced by Art Deco. The woman and the original beauty are its main themes. Whatever the medium, ceramic, bronze or clay, which is striking in Trinque, is that its women often do not conform to the common ideal of beauty, giving his sculptures, strength and individuality.

Period: Art Deco
Circa: 1925
Dimensions: Height: 42,5cm

The cracked is an irregular meshwork formed by higher enamel porcelain.
These irregular cracks initially from a manufacturing defect was quickly voluntarily used as decoration technique for the kind of porcelain called "cracked".

Ceramic or enamelling, when the support and the glaze composition which covers do not cool in the same proportions, there occurs a different withdrawal causing cracks.
Some metal enamelling are hardly used because their removal is too different from the enamel in it. The change in temperature must operate in the same modifications of expansion and shrinkage of the substance to enamel and the enamel itself. It also requires that the cooling is simultaneous.

If, for example, a cold air flow is projected on a workpiece from the oven, the enamel which receives the cold first, cooled faster than that ceramic paste covers and removal causes crazing.

The most famous and most respected crackle from China (Guan type of sandstone of the twelfth century) and Japan, where artisans were able to obtain mixtures of various cracked on the same vessel. Sometimes, in the thus formed slots, they insert an enamel of another color which partitions the first. This piece has an attribution mark,
I am sure that it is completely authentic and take full responsibility for any authenticity
issues arising from misattribution less