LES ARGONAUTES - FRÉDÉRIQUE BOURGUET (1925-1997) (FRANÇOISE BOURGUET, KNOWN AS) AND ISABELLE FERLAY (1917-2009) - FORMER ALAN GRIZOT COLLECTION Couple of owls Important and rare slightly hollow dish. Ceramic proof with polychrome enamel and engobe decoration. Signed BOURGUET-FERLAY Céramiste potier - Les ARGONAUTES Vallauris on reverse. Diameter: 41cm Provenance: Alan Grizot Collection: Alan Grizot Collection. Exhibition: Et l'Arche de Noé fit escale à Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie- Musée de la Poterie Méditerranéenne, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, April 2 to October 29, 2023. Our work exhibited during this event. Bibliography: Et l'Arche de Noé fit escale à Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie- Catalogue de l'exposition organisée au Musée de la Poterie Méditerranéenne, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie (2 avril - 29 octobre 2023), Éditions du Musée de la Poterie Méditerranéenne, Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, 2023. Our work reproduced on page 31. Atelier Les Argonautes originates from the artistic association of Frédérique Bourguet and Isabelle Ferlay. Both trained at the Beaux-Arts, they met in 1951, then founded their ceramics workshop in Vallauris in 1953. Their early production of objects in red chamotte clay soon evolved into creations with zoomorphic or mythological decoration, before turning to the use of stoneware in the 1970s. The formal purity and modelling quality of their creations, to which they add very light glazes, will characterize their work - until the closure of their workshop in 1979.