Cone Shaped Vase with Frieze Decor
Cone shaped copperware vase, which shows on its upper part a ‘grecques’ décor and small inlaid squares with patinated silver metal on a red background. The lower part is patinated in a brown-red shade. The surface of the piece is entirely hand hammered. Unique piece.
Signed and dated: Cl. Linossier under the vase and marked with a label inscribed n°989b and dated 1946.
Dimensions:
Height : 7 ¾ in.
Diameter : 8 in.
Remarks:
Claudius Linossier started working metal very young, first in a religious goldsmith shop in Lyon, then in two Parisian workshops. He works for a while with the brasser Jean Dunand. He receives the Florence Blumenthal grant and the first price in the International Exhibition of 1937. With Decoeur, Lenoble, Decorchemont and Daurat, he was a member of the French Contemporary artists. Without using enamels or lacquers, his decorations, geometric or in a stylised archaism, were composed of metal encrustations. The bodies of the pieces, in red bronze or black tone ferronickel, were brightened either by the shaded grey of silver, by the pale gold of yellow copper or by the dark purple of red copper, magnified by the violent and primitive action fire.
Bibliography:
J. Gaillard, Un lyonnais célèbre des années 20. Claudius Linossier, Lyon, Edition lyonnaise d’art et d’histoire, 1993, n° 20 C p. 191 for a similar decor.
