Mayodon and Spade, Black lacquered sideboard-bar with earthenware panels, 1940s

Baptistin Spade and Jean Mayodon, attributed to.

Black lacquered sideboard transformed in bar with one rotating front door and two door on each side, the whole ensemble is fixed on wheels (later montage). The rotating front door opens on two storage ranks and side doors on two glass shelves. Oak structure with mahogany veneered inside, woodwork probably made by Baptistin Spade.
The sideboard is adorned with enamel crackled ceramic plates on the opening front door and on the top. Decoration of animals with an elephant and monkeys on a forest in front and with birds in the middle of foliage on top.

Signed on the bottom right with a lyre pattern, attributed to the French ceramist Jean Mayodon.

Jean Mayodon(1893-1967) was a famous French ceramist in the 1940’s, artistic adviser then briefly director of the French Manufacture de Sèvres. His favorite material was the enamel ceramic, with a rich decorative repertoire highly inspired by the Antiquity that highlights fantasy creatures or stylized animals enhanced by vivid colors.

Baptistin Spade (1891-1969) was one of the great name of the cabinetmaking of the Art Deco period. He is known for working with the architect Roger-Henri Expert for the decoration of the Palais de Chaillot and liner Normandie. He became one of the most important supplier of furniture creation for more than 30 liners since 1950.