Any history of Cybis porcelain would be incomplete without delving, at least somewhat, into its predecessor – the Cordey China Company. This post is the first in a series that will look at Cordey through vintage retail advertisements combined with photos of the actual pieces found for sale today. Cordey production can be divided into [...]
Although the Cybis studio never produced a porcelain Christmas tree, their ‘sister company’, Cordey, made two styles. At least one of the trees was produced during the years when the Cybis and Cordey lines co-existed in the same Church Street studio. Because one of the main Cordey lines was lamps, it made sense for them [...]
Despite the pieces having been produced in the same studio, it’s usually easy to distinguish Cordey and Cybis from each other by sight; their styles were very different. Most Cordey items were Old World/European/Dresden in flavor, while the first-decade Cybis retail pieces were either religious (most) or animals and birds (some.) They were also marked [...]
As a follow-up to my first post on this subject, here are a dozen additional Cordey items that struck me as being unique, unusual, or in some cases downright weird. Like all Cordey pieces that emerged from the Cybis facility, they date from the 1940s or early 1950s. This first example is unusual because [...]
The two Boleslaw Cybis porcelain lines (Cordey and Cybis) both utilized a number system for their production but approached them in rather different ways. A working knowledge of both can be helpful when trying to identify the 1950s output of the Cybis branded items in particular. The Cordey Numbering System In the July 2004 issue [...]
Although this site focuses primarily on porcelains produced under the Cybis name, we've already seen a bit of 'crossover' with some Cordey pieces during the 1940s. That said, the majority of Cordey items were so distinct from Cybis as to be an entirely different design genre. Nevertheless, because of the two-decade dual ownership by Boleslaw [...]
As shown in the 1940s Cybis Retail post, occasionally items from that era are found with either a dual signature (Cordey plus Cybis) on the same piece and, in a very few instances, a standard Cordey design item has been found bearing the "M.B. Cybis" signature instead. There aren't many of these "duals" and "duplicates" [...]
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