Cybis did not produce nearly as many rose studies as did Boehm or Connoisseur of Malvern, but the ones they did create are well worth looking at. Their very first rose also poses a little mystery as to its naming and production, but bear with me a bit and we will sort it out! This [...]
Almost none of the Cybis birds produced after 1960 resemble the early birds of the 1950s in style, and all of them were created in bisque (matte) porcelain. The sculptures below are sorted by decade according to their introduction year. The Cybis Owls shows those birds in more detail than is mentioned here, and the [...]
The Cybis studio has a long history of bird studies, with a few dating as far back as the 1940s; those are recognizably different from those produced during the 1950s and beyond. The Cybis birds produced during the 1950s show a gradually evolving style mix which coalesced into a permanent and definitive look beginning in [...]
Although the proper term for a large group of rabbits is a colony or a fluffle, it does seem as if it should instead be “a reproduction of rabbits” or “a bonanza of bunnies”! Either of these would apply to the largesse of lagomorphs created in porcelain by Cybis. Indeed, they were such a mainstay [...]
Fairytales proved a fertile field for the imaginations of the artists of Cybis for the first two decades of the modern studio’s existence, with many of the best loved tales by Hans Christian Anderson and the Brothers Grimm being represented by them in porcelain. They were a mixture of limited and non-limited editions; the non-limited [...]
The Cybis studio produced relatively few dog and cat studies – less than a dozen of each during the studio’s entire history. I have never seen a Cordey-imprint dog, although there were three different cats made. Most of the canine sculptures were introduced in the 1980s or later and all are open (non-limited) editions. The [...]
Cats and dogs were both represented in porcelain by Cybis, although less than a dozen designs were created in either category. The majority of those sculptures were produced by the modern (post-1960) studio although there are earlier examples. In fact, there are two feline designs dating from the Cordey era (1940s-early 1950s). Dual-marked Cordey/Cybis Cats [...]
Despite the title of this post, Cybis never produced a hockey sculpture but they did take to the ice with a trio of figure skaters in consecutive years during the 1980s. All were limited editions of 750 initially priced at $625; a Cybis price list from 1988 shows an increase to $675, and then to [...]
The art porcelain market has at times been as volatile as Wall Street – bullish one decade and bearish the next. Although the bears and bulls were both represented in the Cybis studio’s output, one clearly outnumbered the other throughout their seven decades of existence. The Bulls Bull, 'God of the Thunderbolt' was introduced in [...]
It seems a bit odd that during its entire history the Cybis studio produced so few flower basket designs. Four of the retail-production baskets were open editions and one was a limited edition. The sole limited edition basket is the Colonial Basket which represents the official flowers of the original 13 colonies. The flowers included [...]
THE CYBIS ARCHIVE 