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Marius Giuge's sunflower-design oyster plate sets scalloped wells around a center, in a warm amber glaze over basket-weave texture. Made in about the 1950s at Vallauris, a hub of mid-century French ceramics. Read its story.
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Marius Giuge was a French potier, one of the artisans at work in Vallauris during its mid-century renaissance. Pablo Picasso lived in the town from the late 1940s and helped revive its ceramic craft in the 1950s, setting off a creative surge among its workshops. This oyster plate shows the rustic, Mediterranean side of that moment, warm and sunlit.
One dealer describes Giuge's plates of this kind as French majolica. Pieces like this one were reportedly formed in his workshop's molds, so each detail held crisp. A well in the center is set aside for a sauce, and the wells around it welcome oysters or appetizers.
Seen whole, the plate reads as a sunflower turned toward the sun. Its amber deepens and brightens as daylight travels over it, a glimpse of the Mediterranean south brought indoors.
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