‡ Mermaid a large Bing and Grondahl faience sculpture by Jean Gauguin

‡ Mermaid a large Bing and Grondahl faience sculpture by Jean Gauguin, the mermaid modelled riding a hippocamp, in colours impressed factory mark, painted facsimile signature, 65cm. high

Literature

Esbjorn Hiort, Modern Danish Ceramics, Museum Books Inc, 1955 page 54-55 for a comparable figure illustrated, listed as designed 1927.

Catalogue notes

Jean Rene Gauguin, the son of the artist Paul Gauguin, was born in France in 1881 and died in Copenhagen in 1961.