There’s something so 'connected' about pink and blue, isn’t there? These are the classic ‘baby’ colors, they are complementary in the garden, and they simply play so nicely together. Perhaps that’s why Cybis chose to use them several times as the alternative color of a designated gallery-event sculpture. Sometimes a colorway switch can be notably [...]
Cybis had a continuous history of child head/portrait busts through most of the studio's existence. All but three were attached to a wood base, and all were between 9” and 11” high overall. Most were issued as companion sculptures although each was sold separately. Only three were limited editions; the others were open (non-limited). Let’s [...]
Here are five Cybis designs in honor of the holiday and moms everywhere. America's First Born (Virginia Dare) is 8" high overall. On August 18, 1587, Virginia Dare became the first baby born on American soil to British parents. She was born on Roanoke Island which was part of the Virginia Colony for which she [...]
This charming trio of separate but related Cybis porcelain sculptures is based on Longfellow’s classic poem The Children’s Hour about his three young daughters. Indeed, Cybis captions this photo within their 1979 catalog Porcelains that Fire the Imagination as “The Children’s Hour Group”. However, they were each sold separately as Alice, Allegra and Edith (shown [...]
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 [...]
When the Cybis porcelain studio decided to begin selling sculptures directly to the public in the 1990s, they decided to also follow the 'collectors club' trend as well. In October 1994, the studio sent this mailing to collectors on their contact lists: The annual fee would be $55, unless the person decided to pre-order the [...]
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