Antique Print. Blue & white Porcelain, Faience Plate in Dutch-style Japanese design c1870

by Delaroque/Ris-Paquot

Blue & white Faience Porcelain Plate lithograph c1870 by Ris-Paquot for Delaroque. Assiette. Genre Hollando Japonais (Plate. Dutch-Japanese style). Beautiful original lithograph, with the styles of Holland and Japan in this blue and white coloured plate, is by Ris-Paquot in Amiens, for "Histoire des Faiences de Rouen", illustrating the finest of Faience porcelain, published in Paris circa 1870 by Eugene Delaroque.

Faience porcelain was the first European "soft" porcelain, created early in the 18th century by Louis Poterat, sieur de Saint-Etienne, a potter of Rouen in France. This beautiful soft coloured, warm milky white translucent earthenware, is traditionally decorated by foliated patterns and floral designs of typical French style, or ornamented by coloured designs in imitation of the old Chinese and Japanese porcelain.

Image size: 275 x 195mm (11 x 7.75 inches)