Jacques Blin Antelope Footed Bowl c1970

Description

Heading : Jacques Blin – Antelope Footed Bowl 
Date : 1960’s – 1970’s
Origin : Paris. France
Bowl Features : Stylised etched image based on prehistoric cave-paintings. colourised with green/bue glazes
Marks : Incised to the inside of the foot ‘J Blin’- see images
Type : Footed Bowl
Size : 18.4 cm high – 26.0 cm diameter bowl – 8.1 cm diameter foot
Condition : as new
Restoration : None
Weight : 2011 grams

Jacques Blin (1920-95) was one of France’s most promising and successful mid-century studio potters and ceramicists. He began working with clay during the 1940’s. but only made his passion his profession in 1954 when he gave up his career as an engineer and opened his first studio in Paris.

During the early 1960’s. he developed his own hallmark style with the painter Jean Rustin. etching his designs onto the clay body before firing. and adding them with cloudy green or blue glazes and metallic oxides. His motifs focus on stylised people and animals. and were inspired by graffiti. ancient Greek and Cretan pottery and prehistoric cave paintings found in France. such as those Lascaux.

He exhibited regularly at the Salon. Des Artistes Decorateurs and the Salon des Tuileries. In 1962 he won a gold medal at the Prague Exposition Internationale de la Ceramique Contemporaine. In 1966 he won the silver medal at the Societe des Artistes Francais. He was elected President of the Chambre Sydicale des Ceramistes et Ateliers d’Art in 1970.  He also served on the jury for Vallauris Biennale.

Footed bowls are scarce shape for Blin. with vases. pitchers and chargers being more common.