Diana. French Faience Ceramic Saucière. Ris-Paquot antique print c1870

by Delaroque/Ris-Paquot

Gorgeous Faience Sauceboat with cupid - with artisan marks.

Beautiful Faience sauce boat lithograph, finely coloured in red, white and blue, colour-printed by Ris-Paquot in Amiens, for Histoire des Faiences de Rouen, published in Paris circa 1870 by Eugene Delaroque.

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 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.

Image size 275 x 195mm (11 x 7.75 inches).
(Currently half-framed with red-brown narrow bevel-edged window of 'antique white' ragmat conservation board, covered for presentation and protection until framed. Please email for picture 'half-framed' for $185.)