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Ovoid vase cracked ceramic and enamel signed Keramis * Belgium, Workshop Catteau, Model D 1755 975 form, decorator No. 26, representing beautiful large colorful flowers, antique Art Deco twentieth century.
This vase is in very good condition. It is signed and numbered in the ass.
A note: tiny defects of enamel and light wear of time, see photos.
Factory founded by Victor BOCH 1841 in La Louvière, Belgium. In 1906 the flagship of the production was the realization sets of Delft, and until 1920, it corresponded to that classic of a large earthenware. Throughout its existence the factory retained the industrial side, mass production, and developed the through Anna BOCH, in the best way that we can hope with the arrival of Charles CATTEAU in 1906. Following International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in 1925 and Autumn Fairs in Paris, she provides art workshops Parisian department stores: Primavera, Pomona and Mastery. It therefore followed the great artistic movements of the time: japanism Africanism, and forward thinking, we return to a decorative ceramic producing very high quality and recognizable among all.
is a Franco-Belgian ceramist. After a ceramic engineer training at the Sèvres factory - which will become the National School of industrial ceramics - where he worked for two years, he left in 1904 in Germany at the factory of Nymphenburg near Munich. There is poached by Boch which then sought to renew production of its factory in La Louvière, Boch-Kéramis. It supports in 1907, the decoration workshop he will remain in charge until 1946.Il arrived at a time when art began to be perceived as a way to sell more production and where technological advances allow a reproduction and standardization of objects. What makes Catteau is sometimes considered a ceramist designer than an artist. Formed during the period of Art Nouveau, it is sensitive to the idea that art should be accessible to all and to embellish everyday life, something that allows him industrialization of the 1920s and 1930. It is the one of the great designers of the Art Deco, at least one of the greatest ceramists of this style.
