JAN AND JOËL MARTEL (1896-1966) - SCULPTORS MEMBERS OF THE U.A.M. & MARCEL GUILLARD CERAMIST & ETLING PUBLISHER Coq, model created in [1927], an identical work presented at the Salon de la Société des Artistes Décorateurs, Paris, 1927 A sculpture. Proof in polychrome enamelled ceramic with gold craquelé firing. Signed J. MARTEL on the edge of the terrace, countersigned J. MARTEL, and stamped Marcel GUILLARD and Éditions ETLING on the base. H. 38.5 cm (a tiny enamel chip at the end of the spout and another on an edge) Bibliography : - Les Echos des Industrie d'Art - May 1927. A plaster proof of our model is reproduced on page 21. - Collective - Joël et Jan Martel ; sculpteurs 1896-1966 - Catalogue of the touring exhibition held at the Hôtel du département de Vendée, La Roche-sur-Yon (April - August 1996) ; at the Musée des Années 30, Boulogne-Billancourt (October - December 1996) ; at the Musée Despiau-Wlérick, Mont-de-Marsan (April - June 1997) ; at the Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Roubaix (April - June 1997), Éditions Gallimard/Electa, Paris, 1996. A proof of the polychrome enamelled ceramic model reproduced on page 132; the polychrome enamelled ceramic model referenced under number 27(g) in the catalogue of the sculpted work, page 177. - Emmanuel Bréon and Adèle Taillefait - Jan and Joël Martel, Art Deco sculptors, and Rob Mallet-Stevens, architect - Éditions Gourcuff Gradenigo, Montreuil, 2024. A proof of the model, material unknown, reproduced on page 18 on a photograph showing the Martel brothers in their workshop in 1932.