Large earthenware vase with Africanist decoration - Manufacture de Sèvres

Large earthenware vase, decor by André Naudy decorator at the Manufacture de Sèvres in 1925 and from 1928 to 1934. This pattern of "basketry", drawn in the wake of the Colonial Exhibition, was put into production in 1932; after a painting by the painter engraver and illustrator François Quelvée. He exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants from 1905. A pupil of Maurice Denis, he received from his master the taste for large compositions. He is essentially a painter of genre, nudes, bouquets as well as landscapes of North Africa. He exhibited at the Salon d'Automne and the Tuileries and took part in several exhibitions abroad (notably at the Palace of Fine Arts in Mexico City in September 1941). Signed and dated under the base.