{"id":41857,"date":"2026-02-12T11:55:45","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louizaauktion.com\/product\/jean-cocteau-1889-1963-laube-1958\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:55:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:55:45","slug":"jean-cocteau-1889-1963-laube-1958","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.louizaauktion.com\/en\/product\/jean-cocteau-1889-1963-laube-1958\/","title":{"rendered":"Jean Cocteau (1889-1963) &quot;Dawn&quot;. 1958."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jean COCTEAU (1889-1963)<br \/>\n\u00ab&quot;Dawn&quot;. 1958.<br \/>\nWhite earthenware dish, blue slip, decorated with yellow, turquoise, white, light green, light blue and dark blue oxides in pencil, with bright yellow, blue and white enamels, depicting a face in profile.<br \/>\nMade by Atelier Madeline-Jolly.<br \/>\nSigned \u00abJean Cocteau\u00bb on the front. Numbered on the back \u00ab18\/40\u00bb. Marked on the back \u00abOriginal edition by \/ Jean Cocteau \/ Atelier Madeline-Jolly\u00bb.<br \/>\nHeight: 4 cm. Diameter: 26 cm.<br \/>\nLimited edition of 40 copies.<br \/>\nBibliography: A.Gu\u00e9dras, Jean Cocteau. Ceramics. Catalogue raisonn\u00e9, Ed. Teillet-Dermit, Saint-Ouen, 1989, p. 133, n. 203.<br \/>\nAn original certificate of authenticity from the Madeline-Jolly Workshop dated July 17, 1958 will be given to the buyer.<br \/>\nStory: Jean Cocteau, while collaborating with the potter Marie-Madeleine Jolly, asked her one day with his usual aplomb, &quot;I would like a blue earthenware dish.&quot; Surprised, she replied that blue clay simply didn&#039;t exist; one works with white and pink clay, but certainly not blue. Cocteau, true to his boundless imagination, retorted, &quot;Well then, figure out how to make the dish blue.&quot; Touched by the challenge and amused by the artist&#039;s poetic ambition, Madame Jolly decided to create the impossible. She covered the white clay with a blue slip, thus giving birth to the dish that Cocteau dreamed of seeing take shape. (Anecdote from the daughter)<br \/>\n2800\/3000\u20ac<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2013<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":41397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[15],"product_tag":[76],"class_list":{"0":"post-41857","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-uncategorized","7":"product_tag-vente-2026-02-28","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"shipping-taxable","12":"purchasable","13":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louizaauktion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/41857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louizaauktion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louizaauktion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louizaauktion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louizaauktion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.louizaauktion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louizaauktion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=41857"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louizaauktion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=41857"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.louizaauktion.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=41857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}