Limoges porcelain coffee service by Bernardaud, 1970

Limoges porcelain coffee service by bernardaud and jean jacques prolongeau. Model orion. 70s. Found in a cardboard box and still in its original packaging, I can say that it has never been used. In excellent condition. It consists of: 12 cups. Width 7.5 cm. Height 6.2 cm. Weight 70 grams each. 12 sub cups (slightly oval) width 13 cm. Depth 12 cm. Height 1.7 cm. Weight 100 grams each. 1 milk jar. Width 12.2 cm. Height 10.9 cm. Weight 200 grams. 1 teapot. Width 22 cm. Height 21.5 cm. Weight 750 grams. 1 sugar. Width 14 cm. Height 11.5 cm. Weight 360 grams. The set weighs 3400 grams. For 27 pieces in total. Jean-jacques prolongeau (1917 - 1994) French ceramist and painter. From 1935 to 1937, at the school of fine arts in bordeaux, jean-jacques prolongeau studied ceramics with rené buthaud (1886-1986), who then taught decoration. Demobilized in 1940, he moved to perpignan to create murals commissioned by the city and oil portraits. At the same time, he completed his training as a ceramicist in the roux workshop, before opening his own workshop. He met raoul dufy (1877-1953) in 1943, with whom he actively collaborated. Their earthenware pieces, often decorated with bathers, bear both signatures (r and p). Following dufy's death in 1953, jean-jacques prolongeau worked with the sétois painter françois desnoyer (1894-1972), while creating a personal work of ceramics. In 1944, the artist taught at the perpignan drawing school, which he reorganized into a municipal school of fine arts, which he directed from 1945 to 1960. In 1960, he was appointed director of the national school of decorative arts in limoges. Retired, he returned in 1980 to perpignan. His painter's ceramics tackles figurative themes ranging from the portrait of great tenderness and intensity, to floral and animali motifs.

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