1920s Art Deco Boch Frères Keramis Vase by Charles Catteau

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This vibrant Art Deco crackle-glazed ceramic vase features a bold floral pattern designed by Charles Catteau for Boch Frères Keramis … Read more This vibrant Art Deco crackle-glazed ceramic vase features a bold floral pattern designed by Charles Catteau for Boch Frères Keramis in Belgium during the 1930s.
Measurements
Lip: 3.5”
Base: 5”
This is an antique Art Deco ceramic vase created by Boch Frères Keramis in Belgium, designed by Charles Catteau or produced in his workshop around the 1920s to 1930s.Key CharacteristicsDesign & Form: Features a distinctive, vibrant floral motif in striking shades of blue, pink, and green against a cream-colored, finely crazed (craquelé) earthenware body.Production Marks: This specific pattern is typically cataloged under Model D1755 from the La Louvière manufacture. The bottom of the piece generally includes a stamped "Keramis Made in Belgium" mark along with the model and form numbers incised or painted into the ceramic.If you plan on selling or insuring this piece, let me know if you would like assistance finding current market valuations or tips on how to safely inspect the base for maker marks and signatures.

Ovoid vase cracked ceramic and enamel signed Keramis * Belgium, Workshop Catteau, Model D 1755 975 form, representing beautiful large colorful flowers, antique Art Deco twentieth century.


Factory founded by Victor BOCH 1841 in La Louvière, Belgium. In 1906 the flagship of the production was the realization sets of Delft, and until 1920, it corresponded to that classic of a large earthenware. Throughout its existence the factory retained the industrial side, mass production, and developed the through Anna BOCH, in the best way that we can hope with the arrival of Charles CATTEAU in 1906. Following International Exhibition of Decorative Arts in 1925 and Autumn Fairs in Paris, she provides art workshops Parisian department stores: Primavera, Pomona and Mastery. It therefore followed the great artistic movements of the time: japanism Africanism, and forward thinking, we return to a decorative ceramic producing very high quality and recognizable among all.
** Charles Catteau (1880-1966)

is a Franco-Belgian ceramist. After a ceramic engineer training at the Sèvres factory - which will become the National School of industrial ceramics - where he worked for two years, he left in 1904 in Germany at the factory of Nymphenburg near Munich. There is poached by Boch which then sought to renew production of its factory in La Louvière, Boch-Kéramis. It supports in 1907, the decoration workshop he will remain in charge until 1946.Il arrived at a time when art began to be perceived as a way to sell more production and where technological advances allow a reproduction and standardization of objects. What makes Catteau is sometimes considered a ceramist designer than an artist. Formed during the period of Art Nouveau, it is sensitive to the idea that art should be accessible to all and to embellish everyday life, something that allows him industrialization of the 1920s and 1930. It is the one of the great designers of the Art Deco, at least one of the greatest ceramists of this style. See less