JEAN LERAT (1913-1992) - COLLECTION LERATTrois boules, c. 1970Two three-lobed vases forming pendants. Stoneware, gray glaze, black glaze. A firing crack towards the base of the black-topped vase. Each vase signed J.J. LERAT, in incised letters towards the base. Heights: 24.5 cm and 24 cmProvenance : Lerat Collection. To note : These works are referenced under the n° 1182 and 784 in the Lerat archives. [Jean Lerat, while teaching at the National School of Fine Arts in Bourges, developed a training in the use of plaster molds. He took this approach to produce different forms of vases, each copy is the subject of a specific enameling and sometimes a distinct decoration. It is at most a dozen copies that have been stamped]. F.L.