As befits America’s oldest* porcelain art studio, Cybis produced 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 first Cybis patriotic portrait [...]
Cybis Porcelain had a long history of making giftware items, dating all the way back to the first decade of the Cybis operation. (The Cybis vases, wedding-themed items and decorative eggs appear in their own separate posts.) Boxes One of the earliest known boxes has one of the less common Cybis signatures: This 7" x [...]
Euterpe, the Greek muse of song and music, certainly inspired the artists of Cybis at various times during the past decades (her compatriot Terpsichore is reflected in their ballet sculptures.) Their first two such studies were both limited editions that appeared in 1967 but reflected very different musical genres. This evocative study of Arturo Toscanini’s [...]
Although the proper term for a large group of rabbits is a colony or a fluffle, it does seem as if it should instead be “a reproduction of rabbits” or “a bonanza of bunnies”! Either of these would apply to the largesse of lagomorphs created in porcelain by Cybis. Indeed, they were such a mainstay [...]
Cats and dogs were both represented in porcelain by Cybis, although less than a dozen designs were created in either category. The majority of those sculptures were produced by the modern (post-1960) studio although there are earlier examples. In fact, there are two feline designs dating from the Cordey era (1940s-early 1950s). Dual-marked Cordey/Cybis Cats [...]
THE CYBIS ARCHIVE 