Vallauris Vorm Vase

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Avenches VORMCarafe, ceramic H :32 cm Diam 15cm Made in vallaurisAt the start of the twentiethcentury, as in other Frenchpottery centers, culinarypottery began to decline, withcomp etition from metalcontainers. The economiccrisis at the end of the 1930s,and the arrival of moresuitable materials (aluminum,cast iron, stainless steel, etc.)took pottery away from itsutilitarian function and began,towards the end of the 1940s,a very different development:ceramics artistic.This artistic movement ispresent from the end of thenineteenth century with theMassier family. Clément,Delphin and Jérômeintroduced colored enamelsand metallic pigments intotheir ceramics.In 1930, Jean Gerbino(1876-1966) opened aworkshop in which he creatednumerous pottery pieces byapplying his unique mosaicprocess of colored earths.But it was in 1947, with thearrival of Picasso and hisastonishing ceramicproduction carried out at theMadoura workshop, that theimage of u as a traditionalpottery center definitivelygave way to that of a citywhere artists rub shoulders.and artisans. Made in Vallauris France Show more