Flower Vase from Acolay, 1960s

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This pretty vase with generously rounded shapes is a production of Accolay potters. Ceramics are decorated with beautiful flowers in … Read more This pretty vase with generously rounded shapes is a production of Accolay potters. Ceramics are decorated with beautiful flowers in a brut art style or child drawing, on a speckled beige background. Decorative, intriguing and nicely turned, it is a very beautiful piece that is expressed between art and crafts.

The vase is very good, the enameling is nuanced, thick, mineral. The vase is in very good condition, the decor varies according to the sides. Ceramics are nicely signed on the back in the stylus.

14cm in diameter, 21cm high.

In the middle of the 20th century, Acrolay was the setting for a real ceramic revolution. Four former students of Alexandre Kostanda settled in the small village of the Yonne in the mid -1940s, many potters will follow their example. For forty years, the production of Accolay potters will be impressive, original and daring, characterized by thick, often speckled enamels and crazy creativity.


Vase sandstone of an ancient formal form signed fifties fifties form french art midcentury This piece has an attribution mark,
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