Designer & Manufacturer: Pierre Clement Massier (1845-1917)
Markings: marking(s)
Country of Origin & Materials: French; ceramic
Dimensions(H,W,D): teapot: 5"h, 9"w, 5.5"d; sugar: 4.5"h, 5"dia; cups: approx. 3"h, 4"w, 3.5"d each; plates: 5.5"dia each
Additional Information: Set includes a lidded teapot, lidded sugar, creamer, eleven saucers, and ten handled cups. Provenance: Estate of London gallerist Giuliana Medda, Miami, Florida. Themes & Variations Gallery specializes in post-war and contemporary design, including Gio Ponti, Piero Fornasetti and Carlo Scarpa--names as collected today as they were when Ms. Medda opened the gallery in 1984 with partner Liliane Fawcett.
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Condition
good, glaze chips to feet of most and the bottom of the rim of lidded pieces, chip to rim on three cups, minor crazing, minor glaze flakes and crazing to plates