A history and description of the old French faïence, with an account of the revival of faïence painting in France (1903) (14579493977)

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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

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of FAiENCiERs increased to sixty-eight in the followingcentury; but it is presumable that the list includes the namesof the faience dealers having shops in the town. Gradually the manufacture dwindled into the makingof coarse and plain vessels of common use. In 1733 JosephCombe, a potter from Moustiers, established a factory in whichfaience of more artistic pretensions was decorated in the stjdeadopted in his native town. He obtained for his works thetitle of Royal manufactory, and received a financial subsidyfrom the municipal council up to 1758. His Avare wasoccasionally marked with a capital C. One of his followers,named Patras, who worked at the beginning of the nineteenthcentury, has signed some of his painted pieces with the initials,I. P. S. An attempt has been made to establish the existence, at anearly date, of some important faience factories in the neigh-bouring town of Roanne. But the infatuated writer responsiblefor the statement has only been able to prove that a popular

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LVONS. Fig. 4.—HEAD OF ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST. TERRA-COTTA OF THE XVI. CENTURY. LYONS. 43 ware, of the patriotic kind, was produced there at the endof the eighteenth centurj^ BIBLIOGRAPHY. ROLLE (F.).—Documents relatifs aux anciennes faiences lyonnaises. Lyon, 1865. 8vo.De La FERRii:RE-PERCY.—Una fabrique de faience a Lyon sous le regne de Henri II. Paris, 1872. 8vo.Michel (E.).—Essai sur IMstoire des faiences de Lyon. Lyon, 1876.Brossard (P.).—Les faiences lyonnaises. Paris, 1881. 4to.NoELAS.—Histoire des faiences Roanno-Lyonnaises. Roanne, 1883. 8vo.RoNDOT (ISr.).—La ceramique lyonnaise du XYI^ au XYIIP siecle. Paris, 1889. Les potiers de terre italiens a Lyon au XVP siecle. Paris, 1892, 8vo. NIMES. Antoine Sigalon, born in the neighbourhood of Nimes, wasapprenticed to a pot-maker of the town; his French origin isvouched for by unequivocal documents. His work, however, isessentially Italian in character. From the same sources welearn that he set up shop for himself in 15

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