Mado Jolain Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche

Ceramic shell bowl by Pol Chambost, France, circa1950. Measures: Height : 3.6cm - 1.4 in., Width : 25.5cm - 10in. Depth : 24.5cm - 9.6 in. Incised under the base "1025 Poterie Pol Ch...

Georges Jouve's Ceramic cup or vide-poches " La pomme " signed Jouve & apollon mark on back in deep enamel. White cracked enamel with a turquoise/green/pink apple Measures: 17 cm ...

French ceramic decorative dish with fish motif (circa 1970s) by Albert Thiry. An oval-shaped ceramic dish has a chalk-white glaze surface. Within the dish's recess a fish is incised ...

French ceramic decorative dish with fish motif (circa 1970s) by Albert Thiry. An oval-shaped ceramic dish has a chalk-white glaze surface. Within the dish's recess a fish is incised ...

Decorative vintage ceramic pot with lid by Michel Barbier (circa 1960s). This utilitarian crockery pot with lid is also a stunning work of art. On...

Stunning anthropomorphic ceramic vase by Mado JOLAIN, France, 1950s. Stoneware vase very close to Picasso's production, in terms of colors and design. Height : 9.1"(23.2cm), Diameter : 5"(12.6cm). Signed "m.j" under the base (see photos). Mado Jolain was born in Paris in 1921. Under the Occupation, she joined the Paris School of Decorative Arts and the drawing and sculpture workshops of La Grande Chaumière. There she met René Legrand who turned more towards painting. Sensitized by the craze for ceramics which began before the war, Mado Jolain carried out her first attempts as a potter in the kiln of a utilitarian ceramics workshop, rue d'Alesia. In 1946, Mado Jolain and René Legrand married and moved to Montrouge where René set up his painting studio. The ceramic workshop is not far away, in the 14th arrondissement. René Legrand shoots their first plays. Popular art, very popular in the decorative arts of the post-war period, was a great source of inspiration for them. They visit the Dijon Museum and the Museum of Popular Art and Traditions where they appreciate the shapes of utilitarian pottery. In 1948, creations from the Mado Jolain workshop were exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Ateliers d'Art Décoratifs and at L'objet 1948, a landmark exhibition after the war, organized at the Galerie Denise Breteau, rue Bonaparte , Paris. In 1950, the Mado Jolain ceramic workshop moved to Montrouge. René Legrand devoted himself more and more to painting, Klaus Schultze...

Georges Jouve's Ceramic cup or vide-poches "La Figue" signed with apollon mark Measures: 15 x 15 cm.

Jacques Innocenti (1926-1958) was born in Paris, and moved to Vallauris as a pottery ceramicist in 1949. Plate or vide poche with woman 's face , Signed on back : Innocenti, Vallauri...

Ceramic Plate by Mado Jolain, France, 1970s

Ceramic Pitcher by Mado Jolain, France, 1950s Dimensions : Height 29 / Diameter 16 cm. Depth with the handle : 22 cm.

Marcello Fantoni (1915/2011) beautiful ceramic dish, signed, in excellent condition (dish or vide-poche or ashtray).    

Christian Toublanc Original ceramic bowl or cup by the French artist Realised circa 1990 Signed under the base Black and white ceramic colors Measures: Height : 6,5 cm...