GEORGES JOUVE (1910-1964) Flattened apple, the model designed around [1955]. Flattened pansu vase with very small soliflore neck. Black glazed ceramic proof. Circa 1950. Minor firing defects around the neck. Signed JOUVE and the monogram A. P. (with interlaced letters) for Apollon, the so-called Alpha mark, and marked VI on the reverse in an underglaze incision. Height:10cm - Diameter:11cm Bibliography: Preface by Pierre Bergé, texts by Philippe Jousse and Norbert Pierlot - Georges Jouve - Éditions Jousse Entreprise, Paris, 2005. Identical models and variants, in different sizes and colors, reproduced on pages 14, 20, 70, 71, 72, 73, 89, 99, 100, 285 and 288.