Active in the Burgundian region of France which is renowned for its stoneware, Grès de Puisaye, Théo Perrot is closely associated with the School of Carriès. His friendship with the Master Potter, Jean Carriès, began c. 1892, when Perrot moved to the village of Arquian in Saint-Amand-en-Puisaye. By 1895, Perrot was apprenticed to the heir to Carriès's operations, Georges Hoentschel. Working in Hoentschel's atelier, Perrot gained access to instruction from top and emerging artists, Paul Jeanneney and Emile Grittel. Finally, at the age of 50 years, Perrot achieved recognition as a Master Potter. His mature style shows a move away from japoniste tendencies in favor of deeply modeled, cast and molded zoomorphic and vegetal forms which show great stylistic and thematic variation.