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Vintage French Vallauris Ceramic Ashtray 1950
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Small French glazed ceramic dish with abstract design, signed Valauris to base.
Beautiful green glazed ceramic ashtray with colorful abstract design manufactured by Vallauris. France, 1950s.
This cool ashtray was handcrafted in France in the 1950's.
Hand painted in purple green and yellow glazed ceramic on a dark olive green background.
Use it as an ashtray or catchall, useful as jewelry bowl or vide-poche.
Signed Vallauris at the bottom.
Overall dimensions: 6.5 in x 6 in x 1.75 in height.
About Vallauris.
Vallauris Golfe Juan is a tourist town of the French Riviera near Antibes known as the "city of 100 potters". Its name (Valauria in Provencal) means "the golden valley". It is divided into two parts: the upper town is the old center, and the other part, the seaside from the port along the coast, towards Antibes.
The pottery of Vallauris is originally traditional culinary ceramics that was probably born at the time of the Roman occupation thanks to clay deposits nearby.
From the 16th century, Italian families from Genoa come to repopulate the city after a deadly epidemic. This is the beginning of a pottery activity of individual craftsmen.
In the seventeenth century, the craft activity develops and becomes major in the city. The tradition is born.
In the 19th century, the advent of the railway helped the potters to structure themselves. They work in larger factories that export their production, also by sea. Utensils and kitchen containers become the specialty of Vallauris. It is a terracotta pottery enamelled with a clear glaze.
Then the twentieth century brings its modernization and the activity of the artisanal pottery in the city declines. After the war, Picasso gives a new impetus to the pottery of Vallauris by settling in the city. This drains the arrival of artists like Jean Marais and many others.
Vallauris became fashionable in the years 1950-60, and developed ceramics as art, already initiated by the family Massier in the years 1920. Since, the craft continues but overall with decorative ceramics and tableware.
- Creator:Vallauris (Workshop/Studio)
- Dimensions:Height: 1.75 in (4.45 cm)Diameter: 6 in (15.24 cm)
- Style:Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)
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- Date of Manufacture:1950
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use. good.
- Seller Location:North Hollywood, CA
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