Tegel – Sater speelt muziek voor dansende dames – Limoges – Marcel Chaufriasse – 1920-1930 – Uitzonderlijke Pâte sur p

This plaque is in beautiful deep blue with translucent porcelain slip painted on them by the famous artist Marcel Chaufriasse, acknowledged to be one of the very finest exponents of this type of pate sure pate artistry.It is quite simply breathtaking. The skill and artistry required to produce a work of this quality are almost beyond words and definitely beyond photography. To really appreciate this you have to see it, hold it, feel it. Magnificent. Hauntingly beautiful.Chaufriasse has created a masterpiece in porcelain. Pâte-sur-pâte is a French term meaning "paste on paste". It is a method of porcelain decoration in which a relief design is created on an unfired, unglazed body by applying successive layers of white slip (liquid clay) with a brush. The effect is somewhat similar to other types of relief decoration such as Jasperware, but as a mould is not normally used, the artist is able to achieve translucency.To understand pâte-sur-pâte fully, we need to go back to France in the 1850s, and an accident that occurred at the Manufacture nationale de Sèvres. They were trying to reproduce a decorative technique from a Chinese vase, but misinterpreting the vase, the experiment took them along an altogether different... lees verder bij Catawiki