Beautiful Faience de Rouen polychrome Platter lithograph. Delaroque, c1870

by Delaroque/Ris-Paquot

Imitation Chinoise polychrome-decorated Faience Platter antique print. 

With lattice, flowers, birds and butterflies, in imitation Chinese style, this lithograph was printed in colour by Oscar-Edmund Ris, 'Ris-Paquot' in Amiens, for Histoire des Faiences de Rouen, published in Paris circa 1870 by Eugene Delaroque, to illustrate some of the finest French faience ceramics.

Between 1673 and 1696 Edmé Poterat (1612-1687) created the first earthenware pottery in northern France. After he died, his widow and their younger son Michael took over the original factory, while Michael's older brother, Louis Poterat (1673-1696), set up his own factory nearby. Warm milky white translucent earthenware was beautifully transformed by decorating with elegant yet relatively simple repeat patterns to produce some of the finest early French Faience ceramics. Valances, floral and foliated patterns as well as lambrequin-embroidery-imitation designs were their typical French style, but they also coloured designs in imitation of Chinese and Japanese porcelain.

Lithograph measures 195 x 275 mm (7.75 x 11 inches).
(It is currently mounted by 'antique white' ragmat conservation board with narrow soft-red bevel-edged window; covered for presentation and protection until framed. External measurement for frame window is 330 x 407 mm (13 x 16 inches). Please email for picture 'half-framed' - for $185.)