This sculpture is one of only two instances of a modern Cybis Studio porcelain that was based directly upon an original Boleslaw Cybis painting. Although the name of both works was simply The Bride, most collectors typically refer to the sculpture as 'The Polish Bride.' The original portrait is an oil on canvas, painted by [...]
If imitation is indeed the sincerest form of flattery, then the Court Jester figure by Cybis should be very flattered indeed. One of the most striking lookalike (copycat) clones surely must be the one that was issued by the Milano Porcelain company. But first, the authentic Cybis sculpture: The Court Jester was issued by Cybis [...]
In addition to their various child/baby busts, nursery rhyme and fairytale characters, the Cybis studio produced many sculptures within their general category called 'Children to Cherish.' They were all non-limited editions. The pieces from the 1950s and 1960s predated this category concept which was introduced the following decade. On the 1963 price list, the only [...]
Wedding-themed items were relative latecomers to the Cybis retail lineup, not making their appearance until almost the end of the 1980s, with one exception which is noted under 'Wedding Giftware.' The Wedding Party The first Cybis bridal sculpture appeared in 1987, confusingly titled 50th Anniversary Bride. Standing a bit over 12" high, she was offered [...]
Among the various Cybis porcelain ‘genres’ (generalized categories) there is a small group called the Classical Impressions. All except two were limited editions, and most were introduced during the 1980s. Leda and the Swan is 9” high and 13” wide on its base and was a declared limited edition of 500 white bisque sculptures at [...]
Almost all of the Cybis 'Portraits in Porcelain' are readily identifiable characters from Shakespeare, mythology, literature, or history. However, there are two that defy specific identification; one is from the 1980s and the other is a millennial. Sir Henry, the Knight was introduced in 1986 at $1500 as a limited edition of 350 sculptures. He [...]
Having covered the Cybis fairytale characters, we still have a separate group of sculptures created during the span of a decade and based instead on traditional nursery rhymes. Some of these were included in the 1980 hardcover book Poems for Children and Other People by George Hornby which was illustrated entirely with Cybis photographs. All [...]
Cybis produced quite a number of porcelain sculptures that can be put into the ‘fantasy’ genre: unicorns, mythological figures, fairytales of all sorts, and of course the three main characters from A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Nevertheless there are some that fail to fit into any of those categories, and many of them were designed by [...]
Euterpe, the Greek muse of song and music, certainly inspired the artists of Cybis at various times during the past decades (her compatriot Terpsichore is reflected in their ballet sculptures.) Their first two such studies were both limited editions that appeared in 1967 but reflected very different musical genres. This evocative study of Arturo Toscanini’s [...]
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 ARCHIVE 