‘Into the woods’ is probably not the most accurate title for a post describing the wide-ranging array of Cybis wildlife sculptures profiled below, but I think that with more than 50% of them qualifying as per habitat I can probably get away with it. Beginning with the smallest woodland denizen, Deer Mouse ‘In Clover’ is [...]
Watching the acrobatic antics of a pair of squirrels reminded me that Cybis created four of them in porcelain. The first and best known of them, Squirrel, ‘Mr. Fluffy Tail’ appeared in 1965 as an open edition and was produced until his retirement in 1971. He stands 7.5” high and has the typical squirrel attitude [...]
Cybis had differing motivations when it came to doing color variations on certain sculptures, and it can cause considerable confusion when seeing (or selling) them in the secondary market. This is because a color variation may have been done for any one of several purposes. (Note: This article does not apply to the Hall of [...]
THE CYBIS ARCHIVE 