Ceramic

La Fontaine’s Fables: The Milkmaid and the Milk Can

La Laitière et le Pot de lait

Marc CHAGALL

No. C-14
1950
Dish
red clay, decorated with slips and oxides, engraved with a knife and dry point needle, underglaze
8 _15/16 x 7 _13/16 in. (22.7 x 19.8 cm)
Signed Chagall at the bottom in the middle
Pottery studio: Poterie des Remparts

Marc CHAGALL, La Fontaine’s Fables: The Milkmaid and the Milk Can (Fables de La Fontaine : La Laitière et le Pot de lait), 1950, red clay, decorated with slips and oxides, engraved with a knife and dry point needle, underglaze, 8 _15/16 x 7 _13/16 in. (22.7 x 19.8 cm), Private collection © ADAGP, Paris, 2025

Marc Chagall : Meisterwerke seiner Keramik, Stadthalle Balingen, Balingen, Germany, June 21, 2003 - September 28, 2003
La terre est si lumineuse : Marc Chagall et la céramique, June 30, 2007 - May 25, 2008
- Musée Magnelli, Musée de la Céramique, Vallauris, France, June 30, 2007 - September 30, 2007
- La Piscine – Musée d’art et d’industrie André Diligent, Roubaix, France, October 19, 2007 - January 20, 2008
- Musée d'art moderne de Céret, Céret, France, February 16, 2008 - May 25, 2008

Marc Chagall : Ceramic Masterpieces, (exhibition catalogue, Balingen, Stadthalle Balingen, June 21,2003 - September 28, 2003), Münich, Prestel Verlag, 2003, No. 31, ill. p. 68
Marc Chagall : Meisterwerke seiner Keramik, (exhibition catalogue, Balingen, Stadthalle Balingen, June 21,2003 - September 28, 2003), Münich, Prestel Verlag, 2003, No. 31, ill. p. 68
La terre est si lumineuse : Marc Chagall et la céramique, (exhibition catalogue, Vallauris, Musée Magnelli, Musée de la Céramique, June 30, 2007 - September 30, 2007 ; Roubaix, La Piscine – Musée d’art et d’industrie André Diligent, October 19, 2007 - January 20, 2008 ; Céret, Musée d'art moderne de Céret, February 16, 2008 - May 25, 2008), Paris, Éditions Gallimard, 2007, No. 21, ill. p. 55, p. 180