Cup, Openwork Basket In Malicorne Earthenware

"Cup, Openwork Basket In Malicorne Faience" Oblong-shaped cup.
The side holds with delicate decorations of bunches of grapes and vine leaves.
It is entirely openwork. Stylized flowers and foliage run across the crenellated top of the cup. Garlands of flowers fall alternately on the bars. A bouquet of flowers in blue monochrome covers the background. It rests on eight small square feet.
Rare model signed Émile Tessier (1887 - 1971) under the base.
Émile Tessier was, through his personality and his talent, the most emblematic earthenware maker of Malicorne. From 1928 to 1971, his vast ceramic culture and profoundly modernist technical skills allowed him to build one of the most extensive earthenware factories in Western France. Emile Tessier, himself trained at Pouplard, founded his own workshops in 1924. He developed an openwork technique that would make his productions famous. Its earthenware factory located between Angers and Le Mans would later become the FAM earthenware factory (Malicorne Art Earthenware)
Origin: France
Period: 20th century
Very good condition
Length: 27 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Height: 8.5 cm
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