Stoneware salad bowl from Puisaye by Jean-Pierre Prud’homme.

Large stoneware salad bowl with a lovely slightly pyritised glaze in soft colours of ecru, caramel, and chocolate, typical materials and colours of the 1970s. It is thick and therefore very sturdy. Its tall and deep shape is ideal for mixing and serving a green salad, for example. It is not signed, but I recognise the glazing work of Jean-Pierre Prud’homme, who did not sign all his pieces, and underneath, the number 5 is hand-engraved in relief, which confirms my intuition, as he often engraved a number, model number or size I imagine (see his soup bowls for example, which are engraved 1 or 2 depending on the size). Jean-Pierre Prud’homme founded a handmade pottery workshop with his wife in 1971 in Monnaie, working with clay from Nièvre (Puisaye stoneware). This workshop still exists today (atelier Au grès du vent), run by his son Benoît, who took over in the 1990s-2000s. This salad bowl is in perfect condition, with no cracks, chips, or even abrasions or wear to the glaze. It measures 26 cm in diameter and 14.5 cm in height. It weighs just over 2 kg.