Paul Milet

PAUL MILET for Sèvres.
Centerpiece. Art Deco, ca. 1930.
Glazed ceramic.
Signed.
Measurements: 11.5 x 11 x 11 cm.

Vase or centerpiece with a flared body in glazed ceramic in red and white splashed with black, a design created by French ceramist Paul Milet for Sèvres.

Paul Milet was a French ceramist born on January 25, 1870 in Sèvres, where he died on April 28, 1950. At the Salon des Artistes Français, Milet exhibits both unique and utilitarian pieces: inkwells, desk trays, candlesticks. He received an honorary diploma at the Exposition des Arts du Feu in 1897. At the Universal Exposition of 1900, he won a gold medal for his earthenware "of pleasing shapes, decorated with the most diverse processes, cloisonné enamels, enamels on gold leaf. In all these decorations, based on good drawings, Paul Milet uses with discernment the rich palette of glazes that he masters". He also appreciated the texture of stoneware, and Milet produced stoneware vases in the Art Nouveau style. He exhibited some of them at the 1902 Exposition des Arts Décoratifs. Paul Milet also exhibited at the Palais Galliera during the Porcelain Exhibition of 1907, and later, in 1909 and 1911, at the Exhibition of Stoneware, Earthenware and Terracotta.