Faïencerie de Saint-Clément (attrib.) - Sculpture, turquoise-geglazuurd aardewerken beeld van een barzoi - 18 cm - Earthenware

French Art Deco turquoise-glazed earthenware figure of a Borzoi, attributed to Charles Lemanceau (1905–1980) for the Faïencerie de Saint-Clément, circa 1930

Turquoise-glazed faience, modelled as a slender sighthound with a curled tail on an integrated plinth. Unmarked, with remnants of the original paper label on the underside. Height approx. 24 cm, length approx. 29 cm.


Condition
In good used condition.


From 1925 onwards, Lemanceau’s stylised animals—antelopes, panthers and, above all, Borzois—expressed the streamlined elegance of the French Art Deco era. The Saint-Clément factory in Lorraine produced these figures in a vivid palette of colours, including the saturated turquoise of the example offered here. Comparable Borzoi figures (model 5189) were auctioned at Flanders Auctions on 13 June 2022; a similar turquoise pair is attributed to Lemanceau on 1stDibs.

Literature
F. Decoeur, La Faïence d’Art de Saint-Clément 1920-1960, Paris 2004, pp. 112–121.