Description
The hand-painted landscape on this ceramic vase, with its houses, water, and tall trees beneath a pale blue sky, has the calm, unhurried quality of a piece made by someone who painted for the pleasure of it, and the Bepi signature to the front gives it a personal identity that sets it apart from anonymous decorative ceramics.
Signed Bepi to the front, this 20th-century ceramic vase features a glossy glaze over a hand-painted landscape scene rendered in cream, brown, and blue tones. The composition, with its architectural elements, water, and vertical trees, is characteristic of the European decorative ceramic tradition in which landscape painting was applied to functional forms as a way of elevating everyday objects. The Bepi signature, while not yet widely documented in major ceramic references, gives this piece a traceable identity and the character of a maker's work rather than a factory production. Browse related pieces in our Ceramic Vases collection.
- Maker: Bepi (signed to front)
- Dimensions: 17 cm (H) x 7.5 cm (W)
- Condition: Visible condition as shown in images
- Features: Hand-painted landscape in cream, brown and blue, glossy glaze, signed Bepi to front
- Period: 20th century
- SKU: CBD-0045
A signed decorative ceramic with a distinctive hand-painted landscape. Pairs naturally with the Jean Gerbino Vallauris ceramic mosaic vase (CBD-0043) and the wider Ceramics collection.
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