Mithé Espelt “Fleur” hand mirror

Small mid century Mithé Espelt "Fleur" pocket mirror c. 1960, embossed earthenware in shades of blue brown and green.(bead and brass chain missing)

Born in 1923, Mithé Espelt was a French ceramic artist based in the Camargue, at the gates of Provence. A close friend to Frédéric Mistral (Nobel Prize in literature, 1904), her grandfather introduced her into the upper echelons of both the artistic and intellectual world. She rubbed shoulders with Jean Hugo, Jean Cocteau, Pablo Picasso, Christian Bérard and many others...