A FRENCH MAJOLICA VASE MODELLED AS A GRASSHOPPER

CIRCA 1880, ATTRIBUTED TO DELPHIN MASSIER, VALLAURIS (A.M.)

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A FRENCH MAJOLICA VASE MODELLED AS A GRASSHOPPER
Circa 1880, attributed to Delphin Massier, Vallauris (A.M.)
Naturalistically modelled and enriched in shades of turquoise and green
18½ in. (47 cm.) long

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See Maryse Bottero, Barbotines de la Côte d'Azur, Paris, 2002, p. 88, fig. 2 for a similarly modelled and coloured example of shape no. 1142/1-4; also see The Delphin Massier Catalogue of 1908, p. 33.

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