. A history and description of the old French faïence, with an account of the revival of faïence painting in France. elaborate inkstand he painted as anapprentice masterpiece, when he was only nineteen years of Rennes, Hirel de Choisy joined the Royal factory ofSevres, where he ended his life as a pensioner. The names ofMichel, Baron, C6sar Bayol, and others, are also found upon. RENNES. 131 exceptional specimens. The faience works founded by Barbarinolingered until 1887. A rival factory had been started, in the Rue Hue, byTutrel, in 1749 ; with the assistance of a loan of 12,000 livr
. A history and description of the old French faïence, with an account of the revival of faïence painting in France. elaborate inkstand he painted as anapprentice masterpiece, when he was only nineteen years of Rennes, Hirel de Choisy joined the Royal factory ofSevres, where he ended his life as a pensioner. The names ofMichel, Baron, C6sar Bayol, and others, are also found upon. RENNES. 131 exceptional specimens. The faience works founded by Barbarinolingered until 1887. A rival factory had been started, in the Rue Hue, byTutrel, in 1749 ; with the assistance of a loan of 12,000 livres,granted to the enterprise by the States of Brittany, he justmanaged to struggle painfully against adverse Lattay, a surgeon, who succeeded Tutrel, attempted totransform the whole style of manufacture, by engaging a fewexperienced painters from Marseilles. They worked at Rennesas they had been trained to work in the place where they camefrom, and the curious likeness noticeable between the Brittanyand the Provence ware is explained in that way. Some of thebest examples are inscribed, Fait a Rennes, Rue are very superior to the common run of pieces of thesame origin, but decidedly inferior to the average of the Marseillesfaience. The loan was never repaid to the States, and after asuccession of inextricable crises the works were at last closedin 1790. T
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