Large stoneware candlestick signed Denise Pointu, stoneware from Puisaye

Large anthropomorphic candlestick, in glazed stoneware, from the 1960s, signed inside: Arts Ceram and D Pointu, for the ceramist Denise Pointu-Detraz, a student at the Bourges School of Fine Arts and wife of Michel Pointu, son of Léon Pointu, and grandson of Jean Pointu, a family of renowned potters based in Puisaye. Denise sculpted and Michel. Thrown the potter's wheel and created the glazes. The workshop closed in 1963. Stoneware in very good condition, sold with the candle. Height 37.5 cm, maximum width 20 cm, base diameter 11.5 cm, total weight: 2750 g.