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Mid Century Emerald Green Ceramic Ashtray – Embossed Bird – Vallauris Style
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A spectacular living room ashtray in enameled ceramic, a testament to that particularly inventive period of the 1950s and 1960s when everyday objects became true decorative elements. Its rectangular shape with generously rounded corners is covered in a superb deep emerald green enamel, adorned with a delicate network of crackles that gives the surface remarkable depth and vibrancy. The eye is immediately drawn to its decoration: a large, stylized bird in high relief, captured in full motion, with widely spread wings and a curved tail. Its almost fantastical design evokes both a bird of paradise and a phoenix. The raised areas retain the enamel differently, revealing a whole palette of greens, from luminous jade to almost black tones. The piece is completed by an elegant chrome-plated metal frame, resting on small feet and extended by a top handle. The combination of gleaming chrome and intensely colored ceramic belongs squarely to the post-war decorative vocabulary, when French interiors embraced new forms, bold colors, and daring living room objects. Its deep green enamel and sculpted decoration are characteristic of Vallauris productions, that major hub of French mid-20th-century ceramics, where workshops competed with shapes, colorful enamels, and relief decorations to create living room objects that were both popular and ambitious. The magnificent craquelure of the enamel, perfectly visible under light, today fully contributes to the charm of this antique piece. A very beautiful decorative object from the mid-20th century, which could easily be repurposed as a catch-all tray or simply as a collector's item, as its emerald green and astonishing sculpted bird are enough to lend it a true presence. Craquelure enameled ceramic and chrome-plated metal. Width approximately 17 cm. France, circa .
Additional details:
- Brand: 20eSiecle
- Style: Vallauris
- Material: Céramique émaillée
- Material: Métal chromé
- Colour: vert émeraude
- Colour: Jade
- Colour: Chrome
- Period:
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ConditionVery goodColorsGreen, BlackMaterialCeramicStyleMid Century Modern
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ProfessionalSaint symphorien des bois, FranceOn Whoppah since August 2026 • 1 sale