MONTAGNON SQUARE SCALLOPED PLATE DRUMMER & DANCER Nevers French Faience c1895 #4 For Sale

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MONTAGNON SQUARE SCALLOPED PLATE DRUMMER & DANCER Nevers French Faience c1895 #4:
$228.25

MONTAGNON SQUARE SCALLOPED PLATE DRUMMER &DANCER Nevers French Faiencec1895 #4

Nevers faience

Please note this faience item is fromNeversfaience, not Quimper or Desvres. Though similar, there are different colorpalettes used and other nuances on the two potteries. Nevers faiencemanufacture was from central France in the area of the same name. The area wasfamous for superb art pottery known as faience; a pottery technique whereby tinglazes and decorations are applied over a modeled terra cotta or clay forms,and fired several times in a kiln.

The city of Nevers, Nièvre, now in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comtéregion in central France, was a center for manufacturing faience, or tin-glazedearthenware pottery, between around 1580 and the early 19th century. Productionthen gradually died down to a single factory, before a revival in the 1880s.

Nevers faience was one of the centers where the istoriato style ofItalian maiolica was transplanted in the 16th century, and flourished forrather longer than in Italy itself. In the 17th century Nevers was then apioneer in imitating Asian ceramic styles in Europe, within some decadesfollowed by all producers of fine wares. The second half of the 17th centurywas Nevers\' finest period, with several styles being made at the same time,including a grandiose Italianate Court style.

By the time of the French Revolution Nevers wares had ceased to befashionable and expensive, but the relatively crudely painted faience patriotique wares commenting on political events have great interest andcharm. A late 19th-century revival concentrated on high-quality revivalistwares recreating past glories. In 1838, 700 workers were reported to beemployed, but by 1846 only six factories remained, and by 1850 five.

By 1875 its fortunes had reached a low ebb, and it was bought byAntoine Montagnon, who had ambitious plans to relaunch it to supply the marketfor revivalist wares imitating 17th-century pieces, often large and complexpieces. By 1881 it was the only factory left in Nevers. The Montagnon factory(faïencerie) was successful for over a century, with 50 employees around 1900,and its wares exhibited at international exhibitions, but the factory, by thenthe oldest in France, finally closed in 2015. In 2020, two factories remainedin production, both mainly making traditional styles.

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Selling my personal collection of antiques: porcelain and potteryincluding French Faience, fine old nutcrackers and carvings, other objetsd’Arte; interested to sell one at a time, or as a group in a collection. Allinquiries welcome. Please bookmark this work; Listing Category and List Priceare subject to change.

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MONTAGNON SQUARE SCALLOPED PLATE DRUMMER & DANCER Nevers French Faience c1895 #4

$228.25