Mid-Century Modern Decorative Ceramic Bowl by Albert Thiry, 1970s

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French vintage decorative ceramic bowl by Albert Thiry (Small). This small Thiry bowl is one made with chamotte clay — … Read more French vintage decorative ceramic bowl by Albert Thiry (Small). This small Thiry bowl is one made with chamotte clay — fired with grog to give it that characteristic rough, open texture. It has been glazed in a deep, slightly uneven blue-violet, pooling darker toward the centre and feathering outward to the rim with a quality that no two firings would replicate exactly. Against the dark inner ground, a wheel of raised white forms radiates from centre: biomorphic leaf-shapes, each subtly different from its neighbour, each bearing small incised details — a line of hatch marks, a pair of dots — that give them the look of seeds, or caterpillars, or ancient writing. The wide flat rim is edged with a row of short raised dashes, notched at intervals, pressed out by thumb and tool. The outer body is glazed in a milky white; the underside is rough and organic, the raw chamotte revealing its texture as it is. It is not a perfect object. The blue glaze runs unevenly. The raised decoration is handmade, and it shows — no two elements are identical, the handmade forms tilt and vary rather than the perfect regularity of a mould. This is precisely what makes it characterful. The mark of the maker — the fingerprint, the wobble, the improvised decision — is not a flaw to be corrected but the point of a handmade piece such as this one. It is in good overall condition. This Thiry piece is unsigned. Dimensions : H 4.5 cm / 1.8" Dia 18 cm / 7.1" See less