<Impressed:
C. Greber
Small
grinding chips to base ring.
Small
burst glaze bubble.
Otherwise Excellent condition.
$
285. P-537-X
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Stoneware
Art Deco Vase
by
Charles Greber - France
Circa 1920
4-3/4"
high x 4-1/4" diameter
Wheel
thrown. 2-handled Art Deco vase, in weighty
stoneware, by one of France's foremost stoneware
masters.
(See background, below.)
Round,
flattened onion form, with two angular handles forming
arched negative space
Covered
in a fine, understated glaze -- finely orange-peeled,
greenish black, with hints of brown --
--
all over a light green hi-glaze, with a scattering of
microcrystals.
Background:
Charles Greber (1853-1935) was a very well known
potter, working in Beauvais, France, primarily in stoneware,
bridging the Art Nouveau and Art Deco periods - circa
1899-1933.
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