France, vertical ovoid form, modern glazed periwinkle and white glazed abstract slip designs on a lavender ground, 1929 Sèvres Manufacture Nationale France b stamp, along with potter's signature to underside.

6 in.

Born in Paris on September 28, 1894 to an Orthodox Jewish family from Alsace, Lévy studied at the Academy of Decorative Arts (Académie des Arts Décoratifs). Subsequently she specialized in ceramics, working for many years for the porcelain firm Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres. The piece offered is an example of when Sèvres was under the direction of Georges Lechevallier-Chevignard (1920-1939), hiring artists to develop a modern style. A similar example is in the British Museum, Museum number 2000,0506.2.

Jeanne held an exhibition at the International Fair in Tel Aviv, and she was actively exhibiting in Paris. Her paintings were shown at the Salon des Artistes-Décorateurs, Salon des Tuileries and Salon d’Automne. In 1931, she exhibited in the Parisian Exposition Colonial Internationale in the Erez Israel Pavilion.

After the German invasion of France, Lévy was dismissed from her work at the porcelain firm. On November 27, 1942, she was arrested and imprisoned in the La Santé prison, from where she was transferred to Drancy internment camp, near Paris, and later deported to Auschwitz.

Some areas of crazing, otherwise good estate condition.