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AD&PS ANTIQUES

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Striking pair of large mid-20th Century French picassiette vases.


A wonderful example of French Folk Art executed on a pair of large pottery vases. Statement pieces with fabulous colour and proportion.


Pique assiette or trencadis is a style of mosaic that incorporates ceramic shards, broken dishes and other found objects into a design. While traditional mosaics used small cubes that were relatively uniformly shaped, pique assiette or trencadis tends to use nonuniform pieces. The term pique assiette has a French origin. Some say it translates to “stolen plate” or “broken plate”. It also refers to someone who is a “scrounger” which of course fits because most pique assiette art is created with recycled or scavenged materials. Trencadis is a Catalan term that means “chopped” or “breakable”.


These lovely vases follow a long tradition of using broken and discarded materials to create folk art.

  • Period:
    • Price: £575.00
    • €662 Euro
    • $768 US Dollar
  • Location: Gloucestershire
    • Dimensions: H: 39cm (15.35in)
    • W: 24cm (9.45in)
    • D: 24cm (9.45in)