This sculpture is the only instance 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 it as 'The Polish Bride.' The original portrait is an oil on canvas, painted by Boleslaw Cybis in [...]
Given the Cybis Studio's roots in Eastern Europe it isn't surprising that they produced several iterations of the famed 16th century statue long associated with the city of Prague, Czech Republic (although it is said to have originally been made in Spain.) The original statue dating from the mid 1500s is 19" high, carved from [...]
As befits America’s oldest* porcelain art studio, Cybis produced no less than 17 sculptures that celebrated the history and patriotism of the United States. Some were portraits, some were representations of our national bird, and some were giftware items. They appear below in order of retail introduction within each of those categories. Portraits The [...]
Cybis Porcelain had a long history of making giftware items, dating all the way back to the Cordey studio in the 1940s and then the first decade of the Cybis operation in the 1950s. (The Cybis vases, wedding-themed items and decorative eggs appear in their own separate posts.) Boxes This circa 1939 ornate floral [...]
Cybis’ various representations of madonnas (old and newer), other religious figures and popes appear in other posts, but the studio also produced several Old Testament character portraits as well. All were limited editions and are shown below in chronological order by introduction year. The first of these was Moses ‘The Great Lawgiver’. It was an [...]
Cybis produced a variety of decorative porcelain eggs from the 1950s through the 1980s. All of them were non-limited editions. Egg Boxes The 1971 Cybis in Retrospect exhibit catalog mentions this Egg Box that was produced from the mid-1950s to the early 1960s. It is described there as being 4" high, and this one is [...]
The Cybis archive 