Striking deep-blue and white Faience Peacock Plate. Lithograph, c1870

by Delaroque/Ris-Paquot

Large (double-size) antique print. Faience with rayonnant decoration (from the collection of M. Mennechet).

Beautiful double-size 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 ceramics. 

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. Faience decoration imitating lambrequin embroidery, valances and foliated floral patterns were their typical French style, but they also coloured designs in imitation of Chinese and Japanese porcelain.

Fine dark-blue painted bevel around window of 'antique white' ragmat conservation board, covered for presentation and protection until framed. External measurement for frame window is 400 x 295mm. For picture half-framed, please email.
[ For lithograph only, please email for price adjustment to $175. ]