A history and description of the old French faïence, with an account of the revival of faïence painting in France (1903) (14579334790)

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Title: A history and description of the old French faïence, with an account of the revival of faïence painting in France

Year: 1903 (1900s)

Authors: Solon, Louis Marc Emmanuel, 1835-1913 Burton, William, 1863-

Subjects: Pottery Pottery

Publisher: London, New York (etc.) Cassell and Co., ltd.

Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute

Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ience factory ofHochst, then conducted by Gelz with great success. The Strasburg premises soon proved insufficient to cope withthe constant increase of business; another factory was started in1724 at Haguenau, where excellent clays and sand could beobtained on the spot. Faience of the same description was madein both places; but the few specimens of Haguenau ware that havebeen identified do not give one a very high opinion of its quality.The glaze is full of specks and minute holes, thin, and of agreyish tint. The decoration consists chiefly in stiff andungainly flowers painted in blue under the glaze. A few piecesare marked with two crossed tobacco-pipes, as a recollection ofthe original trade carried on in the place. Carl Francis Hannong, unable to bear any longer the burdenof two busy factories, disposed of them, in 1732, in favour of histwo sons, Paul-Antoine and Balthasar, against an annuity to bo PLATE XX. STRASBURG. Clock and Stand (By Paul Hannong.) , 3 ft. 9 in. (See p. 108.)

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STRASBURG. 107 paid to him till the end of his life. He died in 1739, in hisseventieth year. The two factories were at first conducted as a joint concern.In 1737, however, the brothers separated; Paul-Antoine takingthe Strasburg factory as his share, and Balthasar that ofHaguenau. Paul Hannong brought the Strasburg manufacture tothe highest degree of excellence it was ever to reach. Fullyconversant with the practical part of the trade, and gifted withgreat artistic taste, he was, moreover, a business man ofprodigious activity. He filled all the public functions that hisfather had occupied ; his works were considerably enlarged, andhe added to them a special factory of faience stoves; he broughtto a successful end the researches that his father had vainlyprosecuted for the manufacture of true porcelain; lastly, thetown council, having reduced the regulation size of the roofingtiles employed by the builders, he obtained a monopoly for theirmanufacture and supply. It is, however, on the

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