Vallauris French mid century Art Pottery c1950 pair of Candlesticks/lamp bases

Size: Each candlestick 14 cm and 22 cm in width. The width of the internal rim of the candle holder is 2.7-2.8 cm.

Condition:  Very good condition. no chips cracks or restoration, apart from a small flat chip to the base of one which does not show on display.  There are a few traces of candle wax remaining.

This superb pair of Retro candlesticks are made in Vallauris in Southern France, a town renowned for its ceramics, particularly those of the Massier brothers at the turn of the 20th century, and later Picasso, who came to live in Vallauris in 1948.

The candlesticks are also modelled with a hole at the side which would enable them to be converted to lamps, although they have been used as candlesticks.  They are earthenware, slip cast, with some wonderful dribble colours over a black ground, finished with a glossy glaze. There is a slight craquelure and irridescence to the black glaze, which is also inside the base, with a painted "Vallauris" and the number 270.