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A ceramist at St Amand en
Puisaye, he gradually pursued his father Jean POINTU’s pottery in 1918. Deeply
influenced by the latter one, he used the same processes which he developed at
his death by creating new recipes for enameling, new shapes, and using an oven
with reversed flames ensuring better results. If some pieces can be mistaken for
some of his father’s, he let himself be tempted by bright colours, yellow
ochre, emerald green, dark blue or pistachio-green. He achieved magnificent
enamels "snake-skin" and exploited gold and silver oxides. Careless of being
in the great national exhibitions, he took part in the exhibitions in Nevers
from 1921 where he was regularly successful. For being a great or too great
admirer of his father’s work, the recognition of his own work has suffered,
but it enabled to make more definite the style of the POINTU family.
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