Week 24 - Newsletter from the Périgord - 2 - Coming up at Auction

Hotels Des Ventes Du Périgord
 Bergerac - 19 June 2011

 Collection of 18th century Moustiers Faiences

About Moustiers faience:

French tin-glazed earthenware produced by factories in the town Moustiers (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) 

from about 1679 into the 19th century.  The wares manufactured in the 17th and 18th centuries were so distinctive, and of such high quality, that they were extensively copied at other faience centres in France.

According to tradition, a monk, originally from Faenza, a major Italian centre for the production of maiolica, gave the secret of faience making to a local potter named  Antoine Clérissy , who established the most important factory in Moustiers and founded a dynasty of faienciers active until the late 18th century.

Characteristic Clérissy faience, which is blue and white (my favorite one!), falls into two periods:

In the early period (1680-1710), decoration was inspired by the engravings of  Antonio Tempesta  (Italian painter and engraver 1555-1630) in the later period (1710-40), by the engravings of  Jean Bérain the Elder , whose designs greatly influenced French decorative art at the time.

Wares in the Bérain style, for which Moustiers is probably most famous, are delicate and fanciful; large dishes, for example, are decorated with a spidery net, made up of arabesques, architectural motifs, birds, vases of flowers, and the like, which serves as a frame for a classical scene.

Another important Moustiers factory was that of Joseph Olerys, founded in 1738 and active until c. 1793.  Olerys introduced polychrome decoration, producing faience in the Bérain style painted in purple, soft green, and orange as well as blue.  Other polychrome faience wares produced by this factory were decorated with such designs as chinoiseries (designs in the Chinese manner), military motifs, medallions, and....

Nineteenth-century Moustiers faience consisted of reproductions of earlier wares.

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"Blue and white"

Moustiers

Saupoudreuse Moustiers 18th century  -  Sugar caster

La Rochelle

Clermont Ferrand 18th century

Nevers 1748

Delft - 18th century

Delft 18th century

Nevers 18th century

Sinceny 18th century

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'decor animé - animals

Bordeaux 18th century

Alsace Lorraine

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'Plats a barbe'

Auvillar

Auxerre 18th century

Auxerre 18th century

Region Est

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'decor d'oiseau'  -  Birds

Ancy le Franc 18th century

Delft

Alsace Lorraine

'Raffraichissoir a bouteille' de Moustiers - 18th century

Moustiers 18th century

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'decor animé - campagnard' - rural

Auxerre 18th century

diverse

Moustiers 18th century

Martre tolosane

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'decor musical'

Angouleme 19th century

Bergerac - fabrique Babut - 18th century

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And the "Fashion-Painting" for Week 24:

The Four Times of Day: Midday (detail), 1739-41

by Nicolas Lancret, 1690 - 1743

National Gallery, London

Nicolas Lancret, French painter, born in Paris,

became a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected

the tastes and manners of French society under the regent Orleans.

more....here


BONNE SEMAINE A TOUS!

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coming soon:

Old Linen and Lavender