Pottery of Accolay

One gathers under the term Poterie of Accolay the production of a community of potters installed in the village of Accolay, in the department of Yonne. This production center was created by four former students of Alexandre Kostanda.

Credits of 1945 to 1983, their pottery is made conspicuous by a great technical inventiveness and a production extrèmement abondante.
The community of the potters exploited the proximity of main road 6 by investing the service stations to make places of permanent exposures of them on the circuit of migration of the Parisian tourists. Their building of exposure, inspired of constructions of the circuit of the 24:00 of Mans, became the obliged stage of the holiday makers in transit. This form of marketing will perdura at the entry of Vermenton until the closing of the factories in 1983. The creation of the highway of Lyon had however had for several years derived the flood from the tourists.

Very diversified creations

the models of characters in ceramic and structure in wire of iron are among the parts more représentatives.

the leader of the team of the potters of Accolay, André Boutaud, impassioned failures, will produce many parts of play by using this technique.

the vases and potteries with glaze blue chechmate scraped were inspired by the ancient ceramics discovered in Burgundy.
a vast series of parts accepted graphic decorations of inspiration ethnic, INCA or Aztec.
Parallel to these parts was created masks out of ceramics pointing out arts first.
the research undertaken on the retractation of certain enamels to cooking brought the settling of a effect moucheté characteristic, similar to a peeling of animal and pointing out the nuances of the landscapes of Yonne.

All the potteries of Accolay carry a signature in hollow, sometimes accompanied by a blazon and, for certain parts, by initial of the potter. The oldest parts comprise sometimes double has (homophonous " In Collés").

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