Belgian Roger Guérin Bouffioulx Ceramic Art Pottery Vase - 1920s Belgium

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ROGER GUERIN
A stunning Roger Guérin vase model 701 with a nice multi coloured drip glaze. Guérin the famous potter … more ROGER GUERIN
A stunning Roger Guérin vase model 701 with a nice multi coloured drip glaze. Guérin the famous potter from the village of Bouffioulx near Charleroi. The vase stands 22 cm tall and it is 19 cm wide. The decoration is a wide band of sunflowers. This model #701 exists in different colors. I have seen them in blue green brown and white as well as rather rare multi-coloured ones.
Most vases by Roger Guérin are in hand thrown stoneware like the one two and three hundred series. But he also produced a serial of vases and sculptures using liquid clay and a mould : the 600 and 700 series. See the last picture of the old Guérin catalog showing some more examples. The catalog is of course no part of the sale.
The vase is in excellent condition. It is marked with its model number and signed "R.Guérin - grès d'Art Guérin de Bouffioulx".

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 serie 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 are either common Roger Guérin vases or (more often) incorrectly described junk made by his son Jules Guérin: mainly vases from the 50s 60s and 70s offered as Roger Guérin vases.

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