"Perfume Warmer w/ Bearded Chinese Figure", rare Art Deco Sculpture, Robj, Paris

Illustrated in "Ceramiche Robj" and considered a major design by the renowned sculptor and ceramicist, this large piece was probably made in early 1930s to coincide with the debut of the Exposition Coloniale Internationale in Paris, which attracted almost 9 million visitors in less than a year. Rare and striking, this porcelain table lamp base depicts the globe surmounted by a tightly composed cluster of nude and semi-nude female figures representing cultures around the world. The women depicted here, all glazed in a gorgeous snow-white glaze highlighted in gold, are clearly representing a range of nations in Asia and Africa, probably coinciding with the nations that were part of the French Colonial Empire in the 1930s, before they won their freedom. Much like the one surviving building from the Exposition, now the Cité nationale de l'histoire de l'immigration, which features a massive bas relief mural...

Rare and striking, this porcelain sculpture and night light depicts two Bedouin women swathed in brilliant white robes, framed by gold headbands and a gold floor beneath their feet. ...

A classic example of Art Deco design heavily influenced by Cubism, this ceramic sculpture depicts two highly stylized Chinese figures in a curving rowboat upon an Art Deco sea, all e...

This rare and remarkable "Head of a Potter" in the pebbly Sung glaze by Jais Nielsen is both strong and subtle, an evocative and beautiful capturing of a young man's visage, no doubt...