A cache of vintage documents recently obtained from the Syracuse University holdings contained a surprise: Two additional named companies associated with the Cybis studio! These business entities/brands were created after the establishment of the Cordey China Company but before the formal registration of Cybis Porcelain as a business entity in the state of New Jersey. [...]
Tag: Marylin Chorlton
Women’s History Month Exhibit at the MAPA
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Museum of American Porcelain Art (MAPA) has mounted an exhibit recognizing seven women who made major contributions to the history of art porcelain. Five of them represent the Cybis studio; each has an Artist Profile on this site (bolded links). Museum Curator Carey Barone designed the lovely wall-spanning [...]
The ‘Top Five’ Designers of Cybis Porcelain
We now shift focus from the smallest (smallest limited editions) to the largest: This post identifies the top five sculptors who created the modern-day Cybis porcelains, in terms of how many sculptures they created for the studio (whether or not they were released by Cybis as retail items.) Retail editions that were sold as a [...]
Cybis in Retrospect, Re-created and Updated
For this 250th post added to the Cybis Archive, I decided to do something special: A re-creation (as much as is possible) of the 1970-1971 New Jersey State Museum exhibit Cybis in Retrospect. However, I have also expanded the original exhibit contents to include what I believe to be some of the best representations of [...]
The Marylin Chorlton Memorial Exhibit of Cybis at the New Jersey State Museum
I recently became aware that the New Jersey State Museum, which holds one of the largest surviving collections of Cybis porcelain, mounted an exhibit of 100 sculptures in memory of Marylin Chorlton. The curator of the collection was kind enough to send me the list of the pieces that formed the exhibit, which was held [...]
Marylin Chorlton, the Cybis Studio’s Guiding Light
No retrospective of Cybis porcelain could be complete without paying homage to the woman who created the modern studio's Golden Age. This was Marylin Chorlton, the guiding light who was lost far too soon. It's indisputable that without Marylin's direction there would not have been a Cybis Studio as the world came to know it. [...]
The Holy Child of Prague by Cybis
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 [...]
The Cybis Child Sculptures (‘Children to Cherish’)
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 [...]
The Cybis Flower Studies
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 Early Birds (1940s through 1960)
The Cybis studio has a long history of bird studies, with a few dating as far back as the 1940s; those are recognizably different from those produced during the 1950s and beyond. The Cybis birds produced during the 1950s show a gradually evolving style mix which coalesced into a permanent and definitive look beginning in [...]
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