Art Deco Group of Fish in Ceramic Craquelé, France

Art Deco craquelé monkey sculpture. This craquelé earthenware - pottery - faience ape was made in Belgium by Emaux De Louviere - is stamped under. Color of this monkey figurine is beige / off-white. This crackled sculpture is still in very beautiful condition for his age and most important he did not break his tale !! Monkey sculpture - Ape sculpture...

Art Deco Chalkware Ashtray with a French Bulldog Sculpture on. The Bulldog Statue has glass eyes and big ears. This painted plaster ashtray from th...

Large Porcelain French Bulldog sculpture. This Art Deco porcelain Frenchie dates circa 1930s and is made in Germany. It's a large bulldog figu...

Art Deco French Bulldog Sculpture of ceramic. This Frenchie sculpture is great by his design: a strong tough muscular impressive dog. By age ...

French bulldog crumb set, brush set. This two-piece wooden set consists of a crumber or brush with a dustpan. This antique tool for table-top crumb...

Art Deco bulldog bookends by Franjou. These bulldog bookends are both signed Franjou, they were made in France and date between 1920-1949. These la...

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1930s Art Deco French Craquelè sculpture.

French Art Deco ceramic sculpture by BERLOT-MUSSIER (Vierzon, 1929-1939), France, 1930s. Measures: Height: 9"(23cm), Width : 16.9"(43cm), Depth: 4"(10.2cm). Marked "Odyv" under the base. The ODYV brand is a creation of the Berlot-Mussier manufacture in Vierzon near Bourges (Cher, France). Created in 1927 from the meeting of Mr. Berlot, a coal wholesaler, and Mr. Mussier, a coal salesman, the company first produced porcelain before specializing in the production of earthenware. Art Deco style, it is a great success for the manufacture. If production slows down sharply during the Second World War, exports to big families in North Africa allow the company to recover well after 1945. Becoming its majority outlet, Berlot-Mussier will experience great difficulties after the independence of the Morocco and Tunisia in 1956, but especially Algeria in 1962. In the 1970s, the company was drawn into bankruptcy, following a crisis affecting the entire sector in Vierzon. The ODYV brand is a set of Art Deco objects produced between 1929 and 1939. It includes clocks with pendants, vases, shaped pieces as well as lamp bases. Art Deco appeared in Paris in 1925, during the international decorative arts fair. This style, based on the simplification and geometrization of shapes, will be very successful during the 1930s and ensure great success for ODYV. The specificity of this collection is its adaptability to customers. Indeed, the colors but also the shapes are chosen by the customer who can then order a unique piece according to his tastes. Customers may hesitate between a choice of pastel colors such as shades of pale green, beige, white or pink, all accented with gold or silver. All these objects were distributed by independent distributors who worked with Berlot-Mussier. A book retracing the history of the factory was published by the Charles VII...

We kindly suggest that you read the entire description, as with it we try to give you detailed technical and historical information to guarantee the authenticity of our objects. Beautiful Art Deco sculpture in white craquelé ceramic depicting a pair of panthers; the noble animals are depicted walking, with their plush stride, in the tall grass in a calm and relaxed attitude; the powerful muscles of the beasts are relaxed, but the representation is always charged with strength and pride, a classic example of the Art Deco style that exalted in its artistic expressions the forms, strength, and power of both humans and animals. The object features very distinctive workmanship: the piece of raw ceramic was first molded into its final soft and elegant form, then fired at about 1000° C, then an ancient technique was used by applying "crystalline" (a transparent vitreous coating) with an ox brush; then distributed, again with a brush, white glaze over the entire body of the panthers; the glazing stage requires a lot of skill, as the glaze must be evenly deposited on the surface of the object, at which point, very quickly, to fix the glaze, the piece was put into the kiln between 920 and 940 degrees for the final firing. By looking at the underside we can better understand this technique. The panther pair...

Art Deco ceramic fish with a crackle glaze finish originating from France and Art signed LEJAN to bottom fin and dating to the 1930''s. This real...

Two stunning Art Deco polar bears in white and blue both with craquelé glazing by the French Ceramic L&V Ceram DAX company Both stamped with the L and V Ceram (ceram means ceramic in...