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Oval blown glass bottle, decorated with multicolored enamels and gold leaf inclusions, signed JC Novaro and dated 1991. A master glassmaker born in Antibes (Alpes-Maritimes) on October 18, 1943 and died in Monaco on December 30, 2014.In perfect condition.
Jean - Claude Novaro is considered one of the greatest contemporary glass master. Auctioneers and art critics compare him to Daum, Lalique, Marinot or the Gallé of the twenty-first century. The youngest of four children, he was born in the south of France and grew up in a small village, Place des Arcades, in Biot. At the age of 14, he lost his mother and left school "delighted to have learned nothing", to join the current Biot Glass Factory under the protective wing of its founder Eloi Monod, whom the young Novaro, already considered his spiritual father. Apprenticed in 1957 at the age of 20, Jean-Claude Novaro became master glassmaker and "head of the hall" and responsible for training from 1973 to 1977. During this period, he will lead from the front the creation and production of all glassware models, together with a team of 40 glass craftsmen under his tutelage In 1984, Jean-Claude Novaro permanently set up his workshop in Biot on the family lands, in Les Vignasses.
