By La Borne Potters
Located in Camblanes et Meynac, FR
This French stoneware vase by Claude Gaget was made at La Borne in the 1970s. Its front carries a landscape of mountains under a setting sun.
The vase has a flattened almond-shaped section and a body that tapers towards an irregular, rock-like rim. On the front, a pale grey-blue glaze flecked with sandy brown forms the sky, with the sun drawn as an incised circle; below it, a band of glossy dark brown mountains rises from a base of textured brown stoneware. The back is left in a warm, rough brown finish that shows a very original work on the material, with the brutalist inspiration typical of La Borne.
It is the work of Claude Gaget, one of the great ceramists of La Borne. Born in 1948, he studied science in Paris before his interest in pottery led him to Pierre...
Category
1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Stoneware Vases and Vessels
MaterialsCeramic, Stoneware