Faience de Rouen, Ceramic Saladier (Salad Platter). Lithograph c1870

by Delaroque/Ris-Paquot

Faience de Rouen. Saladier (salad platter) Porcelain lithograph.

Simply elegant, original chromolithograph by Oscar-Edmund Ris, 'Ris-Paquot', in Amiens, for Histoire des Faiences de Rouen, illustrating the finest of French Faience ceramics, 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.

Print measures 275 x 195 mm (11 x 7.75 inches).
Now mounted with antique-white ragmat conservation board with fine gold-bevel-edged window, and covered for presentation and protection until framed. External measurement for frame window is 407 x 330mm (16 x 13 inches). 
Please email for 'half-framed' picture - for $175.