Los Artesanos Pottery Gulf Oil Refining Company 25th Anniversary Edition Mortar

This is a Puerto Rican hand-crafted terracotta stoneware coffee/tea set. It consist of two cups ( 2” height) with saucer, creamer, sugar bowl, and a small cup. Each is decorated with Sgraffito artistic technique pattern of square blocks around the base. Below it is signed Los Artesanos, Puerto Rico. Los Artesanos was small pottery association (1948-1966) manage by master potter Hal Lasky...

This is an Isla del Sol Set of Six Stoneware Glasses. They depict six human wrinkled faces and are hand painted green beige with a marble appearance. At the base they are hallmarked ...

Introducing a genuine piece of history with this Traditional Early XXth century Spanish Mortar, circa 1940. Manufactured in Spain, this charming mortar ...

Robert Picault (1919 - 2000) French ceramist in Vallauris Robert Picault has contributed to the revival of culinary ceramics by updating traditional local forms decorated with lines and geometric designs. His identity style has been a great success and continues to decorate the table today. His personal pieces are sought after by art collectors. A former student of the School of Applied Arts in Paris, Robert Picault arrived in Vallauris in 1946. He created with his school friends Roger Capron (1922-2006) and Jean Derval (1925-2010), the Callis workshop. In this village of a hundred potters, they met the neighboring ceramists André Baud, the 4 potters and among others the Madoura workshop, where he frequented the famous painter Picasso from 1949 to 1955. He also became friends with Jean Cocteau, Fernand Léger, Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Robert Picault Vallauris France Olive Pot...