Stoneware By Gilbert Méténier.

A bulbous stoneware vase, decorated with twelve gadroons and a beautiful enameled glaze in subtle shades of bright blue, green, ochre yellow, violet, burgundy, brown, rust, terracotta, ivory, and pink. Signed in black ink by Gilbert Méténier on the base. 1920s. Height: 12 cm. Diameter: 13 cm. Gilbert Méténier (1876-1957), son of Louis Méténier (1844-1922), was a French potter and ceramicist based in Gannat (Allier). Alongside pieces produced in large quantities with countless glaze variations, Gilbert Méténier created rare pieces revealing a great talent for modeling. Gilbert succeeded his father in 1920 and established the reputation of Méténier Art Stoneware at a time when art ceramics were moving away from applied decoration to allow the material itself to speak for itself. Gilbert Méténier lived his passion for enameling, creating colors, and firing the artwork. He mastered the layering of fluid enamels, in the tradition of research carried out on high-temperature stoneware glazes.