A fair percentage of the messages I receive through this website begin with ‘I have a damaged Cybis, how can I get it repaired?’ Given the fragile nature of these pieces and the vicissitudes of time, this is not surprising. Before I get into the good, bad, and realistic aspects of my answer to these [...]
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Should You Insure Your Cybis?
Occasionally I am asked whether a collection, or a particular example, of Cybis porcelain should be insured. Several decades ago, my answer would have been “yes”; nowadays, it is an equivocal “it depends...” Let’s take a look at the available options using a limited-edition example: the Eagle Dancer. It retailed for $4000 in 1984, and [...]
Twenty Questions (and Answers) About Cybis
Let's play Twenty Questions with a potpourri of Q and A about Cybis porcelains. :-) How do you pronounce CYBIS? It is pronounced see-biss. There is a software company by the same name but their name is pronounced sigh-biss, as in "cyber." Will sunlight fade the colors of a Cybis porcelain? No, the colors will [...]
Cybis Porcelains ‘Before and After’
The transformation from the artist's initial clay model to the finished retail product was something that collectors rarely had a chance to see and appreciate. Shown below are "before and after" photos of a baker's dozen Cybis designs, contrasting their initial (or early) stage with the sculpture that ultimately appeared on the retailer's shelf. Original [...]
THE CYBIS ARCHIVE 