Edouard-Marcel Sandoz (1881 - 1971) was born in Basle, Switzerland on March 21, 1881. After studying chemistry, Sandoz decided to turn to sculpture. He studied for three years at the L'Ecole de Industrial Arts in Geneva and then moved to Paris where he studied at the Ecole d'Beaux-Arts*.

He apprenticed under the sculptor Antonin Mercie and the painter Ferdinand Cormon. During the First World War, due to the shortage of stone and bronze, Sandoz turned to porcelain* for his sculptures and thus began his thirty year association with the Haviland Limoge* company. This collaboration produced many distinctive highly stylized objects in the form of dogs, cats, rabbits, fish, and even hedgehogs done in porcela...