Box - Ceramic - Mythé Espelt - France - 20th Century

Mythé Espelt* ceramic box decorated with a bird and flowers in shades of pink and plum. *French ceramist from Lunel, near Montpellier. Born in 1923, originally from Lunel from a family of winegrowers, Mithé Espelt remained very attached to her Camargue region. Lulled in the artistic atmosphere of her grandfather, Edmond Baissat, friend among others of Frédéric Mistral and the painter and decorator Jean Hugo (great-grandson of Victor Hugo), the young child learned drawing early. Mithé did not sign her works, she wanted them to remain accessible to all budgets. Mithé, she covered the back of her pieces with felt, most often green. Its refined mirrors demonstrate great technical mastery, playing on cracked gold and enamels sometimes encrusted with colored crystals. To obtain the color effects, up to nine operations and generally four firings are necessary