LES FRÈRES CLOUTIER - JEAN CLOUTIER (born 1930) & ROBERT CLOUTIER (1930-2008) Male bust, portrait version face/profile, circa 1957-58, slight variation of a work presented at the Salon des Ateliers d'Art, Paris, 1958Rare and important anthropomorphic vase. Proof in polychrome glazed ceramic; black outside, red inside. The face treated by engraving on a blanket before firing. Signed and located CLOUTIER R. J. France under the base. Height: 48.5 cmBibliography and Related Works: Patrick Favardin - Les frères Cloutier céramistes et sculpteurs - Norma éditions, Paris, 2014 . Vases of the same shape, with different treatments of the faces, reproduced on the cover and pages 25 and 55.