Vintage Fat Lava vase, Vallauris, 1950s

The thick layer of coarse glaze makes these. Vases called 'fat lava' vases. Height: 27 cm. Ø: 21 cm. Origin: france, 1950s. Material: ceramic. Vallauris is considered the ceramics capital. Of france, partly due to the residence and work of. Picasso in this town in the fifties. Theceramics. Production, however, goes back much further, Until gallo-roman times. Vallauris ceramics. Recognizable by the quirky, hip designs of the. Artists and the high quality of it, on high. Temperatures fired pottery.