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Felix Tissot
Vase from the 'Fantasia' Linedesigned mid-1950s, made between 1956 and 1989

Not on view
Ceramic vase with oval body covered in slate-blue matte glaze, decorated with incised imagery of a stylized bird in flight surrounded by spirals and curling forms, with speckled beige-and-gray glaze bands at rim and base
Ceramic vase with ovoid form, matte blue-gray glaze with speckled texture at rim and base. Central band features incised marine motifs including fish, shells, and aquatic foliage, framed above and below by horizontal incised lines.
Close-up of a ceramic vessel's base, showing a speckled glaze in muted green with dark and rust-brown flecks, and a handwritten maker's mark in brown slip at center.
Artist or Maker
Felix Tissot
France, active United States, California, Palmdale and Mexico, Taxco, 1909-1989
Title
Vase from the 'Fantasia' Line
Date Made
designed mid-1950s, made between 1956 and 1989
Medium
Earthenware
Dimensions
Height: 11 3/4 in. (29.85 cm) Diameter: 5 in. (12.7 cm)
Credit Line
Decorative Arts and Design Deaccession Fund
Accession Number
M.2016.164.2
Classification
Ceramics
Collecting Area
Decorative Arts and Design
Selected Bibliography
  • Kaplan, Wendy, ed. Found in Translation: Design in California and Mexico, 1915-1985. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich: DelMonico Books-Prestel, 2017.
Copyright
© Felix Tissot Estate