Bowl, ca. 1910, French, Earthenware, H. 1-1/2, W. 4-1/4 in. (3.8 x 10.8 cm), Ceramics-Pottery, Metthey worked as a painter, sculptor, and interior designer before devoting himself entirely to ceramics in 1901. While other vanguard ceramists were working in stoneware, a medium in which the ceramic body and the ornament were fused, Metthey was attracted to earthenware, which lent itself to painted decoration and glazes that rested upon the surface
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