. A history and description of the old French faïence, with an account of the revival of faïence painting in France. e Villehaut, Baron dAprey, owner of a glass-works at Aprey, near Langres, established a factory of paintedfaience in the same locality towards 1750. From the first heaimed at producing a ware of the best possible quality. Vessels 126 FRENCH FAIENCE. of silver supplied models for the forms; the over-glaze paintingwas inspired from the delicate decoration of the best French andGerman porcelain. Ceramic collectors sIioav a great partialityfor the specimens of Aprey faience, painted
. A history and description of the old French faïence, with an account of the revival of faïence painting in France. e Villehaut, Baron dAprey, owner of a glass-works at Aprey, near Langres, established a factory of paintedfaience in the same locality towards 1750. From the first heaimed at producing a ware of the best possible quality. Vessels 126 FRENCH FAIENCE. of silver supplied models for the forms; the over-glaze paintingwas inspired from the delicate decoration of the best French andGerman porcelain. Ceramic collectors sIioav a great partialityfor the specimens of Aprey faience, painted with conventionalbirds of gaudy plumage, bearing the mark of Jarry, the chiefpainter of the place. The founder of the factory retired in rather bad circum-stances, and was succeeded by Baron dAnthes de Longpierre,who left the concern in the hands of his foreman Olivier in 1789. Many marks appear on the Aprey faience, the being usually accompanied with the painters initial as marks were not used at the earliest period, the specimenson which we find them are mostly of an inferior Fig. 55.—vase pot poukridecoration. H. 13V in. POLYCHROME
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