Very elegant white porcelain vase with abstract geometric plant decoration in shades of blue, green, black, yellow and red. Signed piece, with the stamp of the Manufacture National de Sèvres, decoration painted after the artist Jane Levy, work from 1925.

Very elegant white porcelain vase with abstract geometric plant decoration in shades of blue, green, black, yellow and red. Signed piece, with the stamp of the Manufacture National de Sèvres, decoration painted after the artist Jane Levy, work from 1925.

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Jane Levy is a French artist of Alsatian origin and from a Jewish family. She was born in Paris in 1894 and from the beginning was noticed for her precocious talents as a draftsman which led her to enter the Arts-Décoratifs at the age of 18. After having learned the ropes in pastel, drawing, painting and gouache, her curiosity aroused by the arts of fire, particularly via ceramics, led her to specialize in this field which she loved to reach the position of auxiliary decorator (non-permanent) from 1928 to 1940 (shortly before her death around 1942). Her work is also marked by the episodes of her personal life during her deportation to the camps of Drancy and Auschwitz which she documented with gouaches. Before this tragedy, she was a very active figure, exhibiting at many salons during the years 1933-1939 and joining the Society of Decorative Artists. Her collaborations with the Braquenié factory in Aubusson provide information on the diversity of her production in the world of knotted tapestry. This versatility is characteristic of decorative arts capable of combining the everyday with the aesthetic, a favorite terrain of many creators, thus giving ornament a central place. All the more so since the art deco movement of the 1920s-1930s with its sober and refined curves and immediately recognizable geometric shapes is a style conducive to this. The great names in current decoration such as Pierre Frey are the direct heirs of the genius of Jane Levy to whom they pay homage by perpetuating her memory.

The Sèvres Porcelain Museum and the Mobile National in Paris have numerous works by Jane Levy in their respective collections, highlighting the extent of her talent and her plastic research in all of her creations.
Dimensions:
Neck diameter: 13 cm

Height: 25 cm

Diameter of the base: 11 cm

Stand 130, Aisle 1
danieletvincent@wanadoo.fr
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Century

20st century

Style

Art Déco

Object Type

20th Century Decorative Arts

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Very elegant white porcelain vase with abstract geometric plant decoration in shades of blue, green, black, yellow and red. Signed piece, with the stamp of the Manufacture National de Sèvres, decoration painted after the artist Jane Levy, work from 1925.

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