Sevres Porcelain - Art Deco Period - Circa 1930 - Large Pair Of Vases

Pair of large vases in flamed blue enameled porcelain, with gilt bronze mounts, Greek handles and a frieze of scrolls. Manufacture de Sèvres - Art Deco period - circa 1930 - Numbered on the reverse in hollow 170. H. 51 cm total; H. 43 cm vase. Expert: Jean-Pierre LACOSTE - jeanpierre.lacoste75@gmail.com - former Keribin collection. From the beginning of the 1920s and until the decade of the 30s the Art Deco style fully asserted itself at Sèvres under the direction of Georges Lechevallier Chevignard (1878-1945). In 2008 an exhibition entitled "Sèvres années 30, la séduction des matières" was organized. The aim was to bring back to the fore a high point of the manufacture, a period of success of rare quality. The determination of one man, Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard, lies at the origin of this. Appointed in 1920 as administrator of the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres, he had only one idea in mind: to prepare this French art industry for the upcoming International Exhibition, announced in 1925, and to enable it to regain the image of a brilliant industry opening up to modernity. While clear, the wish was no less ambitious, and he would have to deploy unfailing energy to achieve it... because he would succeed! In 1938, when he left his position, it was with his head held high, a duty accomplished. These eighteen years had been exceptionally rich: they saw the opening of the field of aesthetic research and the extension of the range of materials.