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Accolay Ceramic Pot Cover
Large blue & black quadripod cachepot, Gallic series, Accolay, circa 1950.
In 1944, aged around twenty A. BOUTAUD, Louis DANGON, Slavic PALEY and RAUDE to avoid the STO (compulsory work in Germany) find themselves in training at the professional high school of CLUNY (71). They have Alexandre KOSTANDA as a ceramic teacher. They meet up with a mutual friend who lives near Accolay, in the Yonne in Burgundy, where they spend “nights remaking the world”. For their personal use they begin in a first bell oven the manufacture of buttons, brooches, ceramic jewellery. The whole team worked for nothing in 1946-47 (the little money was reinvested). From 1947 the fashion phenomenon of ceramic buttons begins to pass. It is necessary for the potters of Accolay to convert to utilitarian ceramics. Very quickly the engobe using ocher became widespread. The white earth of Provins takes on warm shades of sandstone! The potters will own a quarry in Provins and “make” their land. The cost price is low thanks to mass production but the pieces are always turned and signed. The first sale takes place on a stand in Auxerre during the St Martin 1948 fair. Everything is sold! They will have to continue! Very quickly, a “lime kiln” store and a petrol station opened on the edge of the N6. But a crisis is coming, they are not on the highway! The commercial flow changes axis, the national is much less frequented. Then May 68 with its return to traditional stoneware and the “poor traditional monochrome unique piece”. Accolay, like Vallauris, is not going well with this revolution in taste: for the new generation who wants a “work” they are offered a consumer product.
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In 1944, aged around twenty A. BOUTAUD, Louis DANGON, Slavic PALEY and RAUDE to avoid the STO (compulsory work in Germany) find themselves in training at the professional high school of CLUNY (71). They have Alexandre KOSTANDA as a ceramic teacher. They meet up with a mutual friend who lives near Accolay, in the Yonne in Burgundy, where they spend “nights remaking the world”. For their personal use they begin in a first bell oven the manufacture of buttons, brooches, ceramic jewellery. The whole team worked for nothing in 1946-47 (the little money was reinvested). From 1947 the fashion phenomenon of ceramic buttons begins to pass. It is necessary for the potters of Accolay to convert to utilitarian ceramics. Very quickly the engobe using ocher became widespread. The white earth of Provins takes on warm shades of sandstone! The potters will own a quarry in Provins and “make” their land. The cost price is low thanks to mass production but the pieces are always turned and signed. The first sale takes place on a stand in Auxerre during the St Martin 1948 fair. Everything is sold! They will have to continue! Very quickly, a “lime kiln” store and a petrol station opened on the edge of the N6. But a crisis is coming, they are not on the highway! The commercial flow changes axis, the national is much less frequented. Then May 68 with its return to traditional stoneware and the “poor traditional monochrome unique piece”. Accolay, like Vallauris, is not going well with this revolution in taste: for the new generation who wants a “work” they are offered a consumer product.
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