Onion And Shallot Trompe l'Oeil

This onion and shallot look more real than real, like all the trompe l'oeil by Provencal ceramist Marcel Figuères.

Marcel Figuères, born in 1928 and died in 2017, spanned the 20th century with the passion and talent of 19th-century ceramists. After starting his career as a ceramist with the Massier family in Vallauris, he attended the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Marseille, where he met his future wife Gilberte, who worked at the St-Jean du Désert earthenware factory, and with whom they set up their own studio in 1952.
Among the various specialties he explored, Marcel Figuères excelled from the 1980s onwards in the art of naturalistic trompe-l'œil, inspired by the ancients such as Bernard Palissy, while at the same time researching new materials for finishing ceramics, even cooperating with NASA.
This resulted in pieces of astonishing realism, including the fish that made him famous, but also a wide variety of vegetables and fruits.