Set of Six Enamelled Plates

Set of six enamelled plates by Cécile Dein, French ceramist. Circa 1960. Decorative plates, they are signed on the bottom. Handmade, they are not perfectly flat.

Born in 1929, Cécile Dein devoted herself very early on to the shaping of clay and worked in the potter's tradition by producing everyday objects.

Her meeting with Colette Gueden was decisive: the first sales in the Printemps department stores in Paris followed. Cécile creates tableware for Primavera.

She exhibited in several galleries and joined forces with the ceramists Mohy and Taburet to present her work. She produces crackled ceramics which she glazes herself.

?With her husband, the painter Paul Dein (1918-1986), they settled in Brittany in 1960, then in the Perche region. She met artists like Hundertwasser. Her ceramics are then mounted in chamotte stoneware, sometimes with zoomorphic forms.