Costebelle

Signature Costebelle can be found on vases, boxes, perfume bottles, powder boxes and other small containers for the bathroom, produced in the years 1930-1935.

These objects are usually made of colourless or slightly blue, satin, often with floral decoration.

Costebelle is a quarter of the town of Hyères in the southeast of France.  Neither the origin nor the location of this company, whose production seems to be rather marginal, is known.

However, a bonbonniere marked with ‘Etling 277’ is found in the Etling cataligue http://projetetling.wikidot.com/etling277. It makes it guess that Costebelle was an Artist (artistic name) who worked for Etling Project, like Georges Béal. 

It is also known that same design was also included in a trinket set produced by S. Reich & Co. (PDF), which was produced in 1934. 

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