Jean Born - Robj - Bottle - priest - Porcelain - Robj - bottle of liqueur

ROBJ - Paris anthropomorphic liqueur bottle depicting a priest in black polychrome enameled porcelain.
Signed with the stamp on the back.
H. 26cm
Circumference 30.5 cm
Weight: 538g

French 20th-century liquor bottle depicting a priest.
Year 1920
Rare piece in perfect condition for collectors!


ROBJ - Paris anthropomorphic liqueur bottle depicting a priest in polychrome porcelain with black glaze
signed with the maker's mark on the reverse.

Height: 26 cm
Circumference: 30.5 cm
Weight: 538 g

20th-century French liqueur bottle depicting a priest
Circa 1920
A rare piece in perfect condition for collectors!

Fast shipping with DHL and very well-packaged.


In 1908, Jean Born founded the house ROBJ, which produces ceramic objects.

Upon the death of its creator in 1922, the house was taken over by Lucien Willemetz, who definitively helped it take off and leave anonymity with a cheerful and mischievous style, anthropomorphic and colorful, sometimes utilitarian and always humorous.

Contemporary Cubism, the ROBJ house retains vivid colors and simplified forms. The company also embraces modern means of promotion and partners with the art workshops of department stores.
By doing so, she participates in the meeting of artisanal know-how and industry that energizes the 1930s by 'industrializing beauty' to make it accessible to all and thus contribute to the emergence of a new way of living.

ROBJ indeed does not hesitate, for the creation of its pieces, to call upon the best porcelain manufacturers of its time, including Sèvres, Villeroy & Boch, as well as several houses from Limoges.

The company finally established its own decoration workshop in Boulogne-Billancourt, to decorate the raw white porcelain pieces arriving from Limoges itself, hiring decorators to ensure the coloring, which will be fixed and revealed by a muff oven. A 'Robj MB Boulogne' mark is affixed to this production... which ceased with the great economic crisis of 1929.

Before that, until the early 1930s, one often sees ROBJ models in decorative arts magazines, which also highlight the originality and consistently perfect craftsmanship of these porcelain figurines, recognizable at a glance.