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Delphin Massier, Vallauris Manufacture de Faiences d’Art, France, 1900
Grey-body lustreware. Grey-toned decoration of long iris stems and flowers on a pink and brown-toned matte-gloss background.
H: 30.2 cm
Markings: DM Vallauris AM on base in the colour of the decoration.
UMP 9503
Purchased at the Exposition Universelle of 1900 for 150 francs.
Following in the footsteps of his brother Clément, who operated a pottery workshop in Golfe-Juan in the southern French commune of Vallauris, Delphin Massier introduced lustre decoration marketed under the name “Reflet metallique”. The dating is confirmed by a dandelion motif vase of identical shape and marked 1900 in private U.S. collections.
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B Lustre