Pol Chambost (1906-1983), Cup with Animal Handles in Chinese Blue Crackle Enamels

Magnificent cup with stylized animal handles, in ceramic decorated with crackled Chinese blue enamels
Circa 1970

Signed: under the base 'Pol Chambost'
Dimensions: height approx. 12 cm x width approx. 23 cm (at the handles)
Technique: ceramic with crackled Chinese blue enamel decoration
Very good condition
Ref. official website of Pol Chambost, interview with his son and the purple channel on YouTube.
Ref. I_313

Hippolyte Chambost, known as Pol Chambost (1906-1983), sculptor-ceramicist born in Ivry-sur-Seine to a stone sculptor father and a painter mother. He trained at the École des Arts Appliqués in the sculpture department, then founded a ceramics workshop specializing in funerary art and decorative earthenware. He learned ceramics with Pierre Fouquet, among others. Returning wounded from the Second World War, he took over his Ivry workshop. In 1946, he joined the Chambre Syndicale des Céramistes d'Art de France and, from 1948, participated in the Salon des Arts Ménagers. The 1950s saw the creation of utilitarian and decorative ceramics where people sought "the beautiful in the useful." Pol Chambost created monumental pieces and astonishing forms. In keeping with his time, he demonstrated the influence of Braque and Picasso through sensual lines and forms. In the 1950s, which saw the need to refurnish post-war interiors, the following decades were marked by decorative works found in new decoration shops with a taste for the unexpected, such as these oyster-shaped ceramics. From 1964, Pol Chambost and his wife left Ivry for the Dordogne and lived in the Hospice de Malrigou. It was during this period that the artist developed the technique of cracked Chinese blue ceramics. It was a real feat that he perfected in a few months because this very particular blue was made on porcelain by the Chinese and not on ceramics. It is a game of retraction that is created between the enamel and the earth, which causes the enamel to crack. The piece we are offering is one of the expressions of this. The stylistic quality of the animal handles gives it a great stylistic quality.
Pol Chambost, according to his son, thus excelled in the game of trompe l'oeil in his production, figurative trompe l'oeil through works in the shape of oysters or eggs and trompe l'oeil of crackled enamel on ceramic and not on porcelain.

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