"Art Nouveau Earthenware Plate Felix Optal Milet In Sèvres, Decor By Emile Diffloth Nineteenth Blue Deck"
Circular plate in polychrome enamelled ceramic decorated with floral motifs on a polka-dot celadon background.Work by ceramist Felix Optal Milet during his stay at the Sevres factory.
Around 1890-1900.
Very beautiful blue color quite typical of Theodore Deck productions.
Decor painted by Émile Diffloth (1856-1933)
Diameter of 23 cm.
In good condition
Émile Auguste Diffloth, (1856-1933) was a French ceramist and decorator. Pupil of his father Albert Diffloth and Albert-Ernest Carrier-Belleuse, son of the music engraver Jeanne Cécile Avisse, specialist in smooth ceramics (not cracked), member of the Society of Decorative Artists, collaborator of the Kéramis earthenware factory, professor of ceramic technique at the University of Saint-Louis, he exhibited in various galleries including the Simonson Gallery, the Galliera Museum, the Society of French Artists, in Antwerp, Brussels, Paris, Liège and Saint-Louis . We also owe him the wall decoration of the palace of the Count of Flanders in Brussels.
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