Pair Of Paris Porcelain Covered Pots, 19th Century - LS3142301

Pair of small square covered pots in Paris porcelain. Decor of bouquets of flowers and acanthus leaves enhanced with gilding at each lower corner. Pyramid-shaped cover pierced in the center. Upper part in the form of a golden openwork railing. Base with four legs in the form of plant scrolls.

Work carried out in the middle of the 19th century.

With the discovery of kaolin in Saint-Yrieix in 1768, porcelain manufacturing took on a new dimension in Paris with the creation of multiple hard porcelain factories. They are placed under the patronage of eminent personalities and princely leaders such as the Count of Provence for the Fabrique Clignancourt or Queen Marie-Antoinette for the Manufacture de la rue Thiroux and all hard porcelain production in the Paris region is generally included. under the name "Porcelaine de Paris".
In the 18th century, the manufacture of this porcelain fell into three categories: table pieces, toilet objects and ornamental pieces, in a stylistic evolution that temporally adapted to each new trend in the decorative arts.
The floral decoration will largely dominate the production of Paris porcelain, sometimes mixed with fruit or leafy garlands. Then little by little the subjects will diversify with animals, characters, landscapes, chinoiseries, figures... The colored backgrounds are sometimes lined with a gold frieze or are used to highlight a polychrome decoration. Finally, two other processes were widely used and had great success: monochrome and gold.
If the characteristic decoration of the first third of the 19th century is the gilt decoration on a colored background for the richest pieces or else entirely lined with gold inside and outside the object, the production of the middle and fin de siècle industrializes and is particularly fond of copying past styles, often mixed together.
Correlatively, if at the beginning of the 19th century the porcelain factories of Paris were very flourishing, from 1820 their number decreased and many deposits of provincial factories continued to be included under the term "porcelain de Paris" because the pieces, manufactured in the provinces , are often decorated in Paris, which makes it possible to save this name despite the decrease in production.
Some confusion is possible: indeed there is also an eponymous Manufacture, called the Manufacture de Porcelaine de Paris, founded in 1829 by Jean-Marx Clauss. It will have a production similar to the stylistic evolutions specific to the general production of Porcelaine de Paris and still exists today, although its activity is now oriented towards watchmaking and porcelain jewelry.

Source :
R. de Plinval de Guillebon, earthenware and porcelain from Paris. XVIIIth -XIXth, 1995, Editions Faton

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