I recently added a post to my personal blog site, describing the process by which art porcelain sculptures are created. 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 [...]
One of many literary works that inspired Cybis porcelain designs was Mark Twain's tale of The Prince and the Pauper. In fact, there ended up being more than one version of those two lads, spanning a full decade. Each sculpture was sold separately. Both were designed by Lynn Klockner Brown. The Prince The first (standard) [...]
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 [...]
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, named simply Bride and offered in a choice of blonde or brunette for [...]
Angels and cherubs emerged from the Cybis studio ever since its earliest days in 1940s New York where Boleslaw and Marja Cybis created their “papka” frescoes and sculptures. The angels below are listed chronologically. None of them were limited editions. An intriguing group of six angels produced between 1940 and 1942 in “papka” composition was [...]
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 [...]
The Cybis studio produced porcelain flower studies regularly throughout its history. Their roses, flower baskets and of course the one of a kind Flower Bouquet of the United States are shown in separate posts, but there are still plenty of other floral sculptures to browse through! They are shown below in chronological order by introduction [...]
Cybis did not produce nearly as many rose studies as Boehm or Connoisseur of Malvern, but the ones they did create are well worth looking at. Their very first rose also poses a little mystery as to its naming and production, but bear with me a bit and we will sort it out! This yellow [...]
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