60/70 stoneware spice jars signed Atelier Le Cep

This adorable pair of small spice pots in chamotté stoneware are signed le cep, tampon france, for the workshop of the ceramist jean tessier (1931- 2020). He opened the cep workshop in villenauxe la grande in 1959, which takes its name from the famous champagne vineyards. A graduate of the beaux arts in paris, he trained in craftsmanship with the pierlot couple at the château de ratilly. His one-year stay in denmark in various individual workshops and ceramic factories was also decisive in his influence; he invented a line of table products combining pure and hard return to form and matter.