Jean-claude Taburet - Dish - Ceramics - Pottery

Jean-Claude Taburet (1926 Château Gonthier - 2013 Quimper) Ceramist and sculptor. He spent part of his youth in Trégor. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Rennes in 1944-1945, then joined Charpentier's workshop at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris in 1949, as well as the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. He then continued his studies in 1950 with the sculptor Robert Couturier. In 1951, he began his ceramics studies at the Manufacture Keraluc. In 1956, he joined the HB Henriot pottery in Quimper as a freelance artist. In 1963, he carried out an inventory of popular ceramics in Bulgaria. He created numerous stoneware services for HB Henriot and actively participated in various exhibitions, including the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs and the Salon de l'Art Sacré in Paris. He organized several exhibitions. In 1984, he left HB Henriot to create the Steir workshop with his wife Marjatta in their house in Quimper, where ceramics, sculpture, painting and engravings were grouped together. He produced, among other things, large high-fire panels on various themes and religious sculptures. He was greatly inspired by Breton legends, mermaids, goddesses, virgins, kings, Celtic motifs. He is recognized as one of the best Breton ceramists. His work is widely documented in public collections. Our dish is an important piece, perfectly decorated and in excellent condition. It represents a mermaid with long, large golden hair expressed in a marine environment. Signed on the back, located in Quimper, dated 1958 Diameter: 55.5 cm Height: 7.5 cm