Glazed Earthenware Baluster Vase Signed Francis Crociani, Vallauris, Unique Piece

Important baluster vase with high flared neck in glazed earthenware, by Francis Crociani (b. 1929), made in Vallauris. This unique piece features a remarkable rotating decoration inspired by ancient Egypt, composed of hieroglyphs, offering scenes and stylized figures on a deep blue background.

The whole is punctuated by friezes of stylized flowers and wolves' teeth, creating a particularly decorative and balanced composition.

Francis Crociani belongs to the generation of ceramists who contributed to the artistic influence of Vallauris in the second half of the 20th century.

This vase perfectly illustrates the taste of Vallaurian workshops for Mediterranean, antique and archaeological inspirations, here reinterpreted in a personal decorative vocabulary blending graphics and monumentality.

The richness of the rotating decoration, the quality of the enamels and the references to Egyptian iconography give this work a strong decorative presence.

• Glazed earthenware
• Baluster vase with high flared neck
• Turning decoration of hieroglyphs and offering scenes
• Blue background
• Frises of stylized flowers and wolves' teeth
• Situated Vallauris
• by Francis Crociani (b. 1929)
• One-of-a-kind
• two slight firing defects on the neck