This French art deco ceramic vase was designed and thrown by the French master ceramist Jean Mayodon (1893 – 1967). The vase was made in his own Atelier before he took over as director of Sevres in 1941. The vase, with four Matisse like dancing nudes in blue on a mottled lavender and gold band has a cream top and bottom with a blue interior. The vase is 5-3/4” high and stamped with Maydon’s cypher on the base.