One of Roger Capron's most popular and enduring designs was the so-called "oreilles" (ears) vase originally produced in the early 1950's with rough and plain glazes but which later developed into a blank canvases for Caprons studio to experiment upon. Most of Capron's key iconography can be found of these vases - the pyjama range with stripes and squares, the abstracted plant forms in black and white, and some with horses, bulls and suns. The unusual and anthropomorphic shape of this vase captured the feeling of the midcentury very well, on the one hand harking back to the forms of Athenian vessels, on the other looking very much at home with the furniture of Mollino, Mategot and their contemporaries. The vase currently for sale is a nice clean example of the "pave" design of medium size.
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