Pair Of Large Stoneware Vases With Turquoise Wheat Patina Cytere Rambervillers 20th Century

Pair of large stoneware vases Alphonse Cytère Rambervillers - Schneider A pair of large stoneware vases with a blue-green iridescent patina known as "butterfly wings", "Epis de blé" model signed Alphonse Cytère - Rambervillers and signed A.SCHNEIDER. Model featured in the 1920 catalog; the shape and curves of this vase are in the pure "nouille" style, also known as the "metro" style, a reference to Hector Guimard, represented by numerous artists of the Art Nouveau period - circa 1920

Alphonse cytere -1851-1941 - created an art studio in 1903 and perfected a new enameling technique with metallic reflections, called gré flammé. He called on many artists from the Nancy School. A workshop is still active in Rambervillers.

Albert Schneider - 1877 - 1954, sculptor and ceramist active in Rambervillers in Alphonse Cytere's workshop during the 20th century.