. A history and description of the old French faïence, with an account of the revival of faïence painting in France. tempted. Manyfine examples of the Apt marbled ware are preserved in theceramic collections. The forms, inspired from the work ofthe silversmith, retain the grace and elegance of the Louis The foliage, flowers, and other details in high rehefappended to the handles, spouts, and covers of the pieces, aremodelled by hand with no mean taste and ability. Out of the samemarbled clay was formed the body of vases, basins and fountamsof large dimensions; the surface being after
. A history and description of the old French faïence, with an account of the revival of faïence painting in France. tempted. Manyfine examples of the Apt marbled ware are preserved in theceramic collections. The forms, inspired from the work ofthe silversmith, retain the grace and elegance of the Louis The foliage, flowers, and other details in high rehefappended to the handles, spouts, and covers of the pieces, aremodelled by hand with no mean taste and ability. Out of the samemarbled clay was formed the body of vases, basins and fountamsof large dimensions; the surface being afterwards adorned bythe application of figures, masks, and garlands, in white clay,!of good design and elaborate workmanship. A ware of the same kind and of equal excellence was madein the next village of Castellet by Cesar Moulin, the younger. | In 1802 the Apt factory was in the possession of the AvidowArnoux; some marbled plates in the Sevres Museum bear thatdate accompanied with the mark It may be of some interest to know that L6on Arnoux,for fifty years director of Mintons works, was, through his motlierj. niOUSTIERS. Fig. 39.—HELMET-SHAPED EWER, DECORATEDIN 10 in. APT. 95 and grandmother, the direct descendant of the Fouques andthe Mouhns. BIBLIOGRAPHY. Gay (A.).—Histoire du village de Castellet-Ies-Leberon. Forcalquier,1878. 8vo. BORDEAUX. It is needless to say that of the sum total of ancientfaience showing the Berain and Toro designs, so suggestive ofa Moustiers origin, only a small portion can have been madein that place. When the style was most in fashion, theBordeaux factory adopted it readily, and now its unmarkedand ill-characterised productions are naturally placed to thecredit of the Provengal potters. Bordeaux had, however,some importance as a manufacturing centre. According totheAlmanach du Commerce for 1779, about twenty faienceworks were, at that time, busy in the town or the immediateneighbourhood. That some of them could produce a waremuch a
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