Lussan Spotted Guinea Fowl – Red Spotted Black

The spotted guinea fowl is one of those pieces that quietly takes over a table. In this Red Spotted Black colourway the glaze is a warm terracotta red, densely spotted in black, with the stylised silhouette that has become the workshop’s signature bird.

Les Céramiques de Lussan is a family pottery beside the village of Lussan, near Uzès in the Gard. Heidi Caillard trained in Basel and later at the Lausanne School of Ceramics. She opened a small workshop in the nearby village of Blauzac in 1968, and in 1974 she and her husband Daniel moved the studio and shop into a restored mas at Lussan, at the foot of one of France’s most beautiful villages. Their son Adrien took on the workshop in 1994, keeping every hand process that shapes the object itself, while organising the work so the birds could reach professional buyers and, in time, the Maison et Objet fair in Paris. The guinea fowl began as Heidi’s idea — the living birds were already in the garden — and was sketched, built and taken apart again until the proportions felt right. It is now widely known simply as the Pintade de Lussan.

Each bird is formed from red clay in the Lussan workshops, then glazed and decorated by hand, so the spotting varies a little from piece to piece. The workshop’s own photographs are a guide, not a promise of an identical pattern. Place one as a centrepiece, or group Small, Medium and Large along a shelf or sideboard.

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• Sizes (height, as published by Les Céramiques de Lussan for the pintade range): Small 17cm, Medium 20.5cm, Large 24.5cm
• Colour: Red Spotted Black (Rouge moucheté Noir)
• Origin: Handmade in Lussan, near Uzès, France
• Maker: Les Céramiques de Lussan, established 1974
• Material: Red clay, glazed and hand-decorated
• A decorative ceramic for the table or shelf

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