Large Paul Milet Vase In Sèvres

Very pretty blue enameled earthenware vase by Paul Milet (1870-1950). Signature with the stamp "MP Sèvres" used by the artist from 1911 to 1930. Very beautiful mirror-effect glaze. It is 40 cm high and the base is 12 cm in diameter. Paul Milet was born in 1870 and died in 1950 in the town of Sèvres. After training in the laboratory of the Manufacture de Sèvres, he became a good chemist and worked in the factory founded by his father, Félix Optat Milet, in 1866 at 8 rue Troyon, in Sèvres, a stone's throw from the Manufacture. From the age of twenty, he gradually succeeds this one. Like him, he will continue to benefit from the collaboration of artists from the MNCS (Manufacture Nationale de Céramique de Sèvres). Paul Milet worked with his father Optat until 1911, the date of his death, then with his son Henri, a ceramic engineer, who was appointed director of the factory in 1931, which did not prevent father and son. to work closely together. At the 1900 Universal Exhibition, he obtained a gold medal for his earthenware "of pleasant shapes, decorated by the most diverse processes, cloisonné enamels, enamels on gold spangles. In all these decorations, made according to good designs, Paul Milet discerningly uses the rich palette of enamels that he masters. Paul Milet began to sign his pieces "MP Sèvres" in a dotted circle, either when he entered the business, or probably from 1911, on the death of his father Optat.