Blue and white Coat-of-Arms Faience oval plate lithograph c1870.

by Delaroque/Ris-Paquot

Napoleon Museum, rayonnant style Faience plate antique print.

Beautiful blue and white lithograph, 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. 

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. In Rouen, Normandy, warm milky white translucent earthenware was beautifully transformed by decorating with elegant yet relatively simple repeat patterns to produce the earliest French Faience earthenware. Foliated patterns, valances and floral designs were their typical French style, and their blue lambrequin-embroidery faience decoration became famous, but they also coloured designs in imitation of Chinese and Japanese porcelain. 

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