Toilet Service / Bathroom Trim In Crystal Baccarat Decor Emaille De Marcel

Old bathroom kit. Colorless crystal from the prestigious Baccarat house. Enamelled decoration of parakeets. Creation of the artist Marcel Goupy (1886-1954). Around 1920 Together in very good condition. Marcel GOUPY (1886-1954) was a watercolor painter before becoming passionate about ceramics and glass. A graduate of the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris, his meeting with Georges (Géo) Rouard in 1909 was decisive for his career. He began his collaboration with the gallery owner Rouard by providing designs and glassware decorations. These first enameled pieces appeared in 1914. In 1919 he became chief decorator at the gallery then its artistic director in 1929 upon the death of Géo Rouard, until 1954 in the workshop of the “Cristallerie de la Paix” store, located at 34-36 avenue de l'Opéra in Paris. This store was taken over by Géo Rouard with his decoration workshop located rue Vieille du Temple. it became a center for the dissemination of avant-garde decorative creations after the war of 1914-1918. Marcel Goupy's production remains marked by plant decorations and representations of naked women. The technique he developed is based on the projection of opaque or translucent enamels surrounded by a black line.