Porcelaine de Ménage [Household Porcelain] Czechoslovak export catalogue

Porcelaine de Ménage [Household Porcelain]
Prague: La Céramique Tchécoslovaque, Société Anonyme d’Exportation et d’Importation, [ca. 1930–1935]. Oblong 15 × 21.5 cm. Plastic comb binding, original printed card covers. Over 70 photographic and colour plates.

Rare interwar export catalogue issued by La Céramique Tchécoslovaque, a Prague-based export consortium established to market Czechoslovak porcelain abroad. Produced for the French-speaking market, the catalogue illustrates more than seventy tea, coffee, and table services from leading Czechoslovak manufacturers, each identified by model or form number. A wide range of contemporary designs from traditional decorated wares to streamlined Art Deco and modernist forms.

Printed by the renowned Prague printer Unie, the catalogue offers an excellent visual record of the porcelain production that made Czechoslovakia one of Europe's leading exporters of ceramic wares in the 1920s and 1930s.

Very good condition. Original plastic comb binding intact. A few pen notations; small stain to final plate. A well-preserved and uncommon trade catalogue documenting the international promotion of Czechoslovak decorative arts.