QUIMPER HB - ODETTA - early 20th century Two... Lot 76

QUIMPER HB - ODETTA - early 20th century Two stoneware bottles decorated with white, blue and manganese lozenges on a gray or pink background. Blue background at the neck or at the base. Marked below "Quimper Henriot Odetta 658-1057". Drawing listed in Bernard Jules Verlingue, Odetta, 1999, n°658. H. 24.5 cm. and 24 cm. 9 3/4 in. and 9 1/2 in. Condition of use. The Odetta stonewares correspond to a production of the HB factory in Quimper. They illustrate the regional evolution of a taste for stoneware that developed since the end of the 19th century. On the eve of the First World War, the HB earthenware factory was bought by the ceramist Jules Verlingue, who had the opportunity to work at the Manufacture de Sèvres during his mobilization. Having noticed a market for stoneware with the production of Primavera, he introduced in 1917 in Quimper the making of pieces produced by casting, an economical process imported from Limoges. As the clay used came from the Odet river flowing in Quimper, this name gave the brand "Odetta" in 1922, production lasting until the 1960s. The artists and designers employed invented all sorts of shapes and decorations, most of which are listed. These are made in the manner of cloisonné with an outline delimiting reserves filled with enamel, where the geometric and stylized inspiration of the interwar period is mixed with regional references with figures of Bretons. Expert : Manuela Finaz de Villaine