Biography

French enameler. Thesmar began his career designing textiles but was later employed as an enameler. He is credited with bringing the style of soft-paste porcelain, alongside sections with gold foil backings, back into style in the 20th century. He also used the method of plique-à-jour (French for "braid letting in daylight") in works often inspired by Japanese and Chinese enamelling. He showed his work at the 1900 Paris Exposition Universelle.

By 1912, the year of his death, Thesmar was acclaimed as France's finest enameler. Because of their extreme fragility, few of his works survive.