Rouen Faience Powdered Sugar Container. Ris-Paquot c1870.

by Delaroque/Ris-Paquot

Style Rayonnant, Faience Sucrière á Poudre antique print. From the collection of M. Hazart Morel.

Charming colour-printed lithograph 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 Rouen near Normandy in northern France. After Edmé Poterat 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 earthenware. Valances, floral and foliated patterns and lambrequin-embroidery-imitation designs were their typical French style, but their designs also imitated Chinese and Japanese porcelain. 

Image size 275 x 195mm (11 x 7.3/4 inches) Small background discolouration. 
(Currently mounted with 'antique white' ragmat conservation board with narrow dark-blue-painted bevel-edged window (detracting from the faint marks). Please email for picture. It looks stunning 'half-framed' for $175.)