Manufacture de Locré - tea service - gilded and painted porcelain - Empire, Restoration - 9 pieces

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Manufacture de Locré
Set of 9 pieces
Painted and gilded hard porcelain
Dimensions: D. 12 (cm.) for saucers
Paris, circa 1810 - 1820
Mark in blue underglaze for the cup and T.G.C. Paris in iron red under the saucer

Very fine set of six cups and their saucers; a milk jug; a litron teapot and a sugar bowl with fine leaf and foliate frieze decoration in matt and burnished gilding and dark green. Very fine quality work, early 19th century. The T.G.C. Paris mark in iron red (not under the cover) is period but unidentified. This could be either one of the many anonymous white decorators who bought the models from Locré, or a retailer who ordered this model directly from the Manufacture.

The Locré factory
Founded in 1771 by a German-born craftsman, Locré quickly became a place of excellence that lasted until 1830. Its products can be recognized by the blue mark under the cover of two intertwined torches.

Hard porcelain in Paris in the early 19th century
Unlike earthenware, porcelain factories flourished under the Empire, particularly in Paris. The period 1800-1820 can be considered the golden age of porcelain in Paris. In 1800, nineteen factories already existed in Paris, but only seven had been founded under the Ancien Régime: Dihl et Guérard, Houzel, Lemaire et Josse, Pouyat et Russinger, Schoelcher, Despréz et Nast.In contrast to the last twenty years of the 18th century, marked by a shift from rocaille to antique simplicity, the first thirty years of the 19th century saw the opposite, evolving from antique sobriety to rococo. The decoration on our plate bears witness to the virtuosity of craftsmen in Paris in the early 19th century. The richness of the polychrome highlights also shows that this is a true quality piece.

Condition report: excellent condition, very fresh decoration. No accidents, cracks or other damage.

Ref: FQ369BZAS1