19th Century French Barbotine Oval Cache Pot with Floral and Ribbon Motifs

This elegant colorful hand painted Majolica planter was sculpted in Montigny sur Loing, France, circa 1860. The ceramic jardinière with root shape handles features high relief soft pink, blue and beige rose flowers with pale green leaves, and brown and grey background. The ceramic vase is in good condition commensurate with age and use (minor chips on few petals). Impressionist ceramics term generally applies to "paint the slip" or "batch gouache". At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the towns of Montigny-sur-Loing and Marlotte are many artists living places like Jean-Baptiste Corot, Eugène Thirion (1839-1910), Adrien Schulz (1851-1931), Numa Gillet (1868-1940) and Lucien Cahen-Michel (1888-1980), all attracted by the quality of the landscape and the light. When Eugene Schopin founded in 1872 a ceramics factory, he worked with the painters to create a range of designs inspired by Impressionism and decorated according to new public demands. Several ceramic factories will develop around this Impressionist movement. The most famous, such as Georges Delvaux (1834-1909), Albert Boué (1862-1918) and Charles Alphonse Petit (1862-1927), will produce until 1922. Other manufacturers, such as Theodore Lefront...

Dress a dining table, console, or mantel with this elegant 19th-century French Rouen faience jardinière. Crafted in Normandy circa 1860, the elongated ceramic vessel features a scall...

Crafted in Rouen, France circa 1890, and oval in shape, the antique planter stands on scrolled feet over a scalloped apron; it features elegant s...

Decorate a table or a mantel with this elegant, Louis XV bowed jardinière. Crafted in northern France, circa 1920, and oblong in shape, this antique planter sits on four scrolled fee...

Richly decorated Rococo style high quality German porcelain Jardinière with hand-painted floral pattern from PMP 1817 GDR Germany. Handpainted porcelain, artist signed under. Gold ...

A 19th century French Desvres faience jardinière, or planter. Hand painted in typical floral design with beautiful vivid colors of blue, green, yellow and red on white ground. Footed...

French Desvres faience jardinière painted with flowers, circa 1900. Marked on base. Minor wear.

Rouen, located in the region of Normandy, just outside of Paris, has been at the center of French faience production since the mid-1500s. This lovely hand-painted jardiniere (circa 1...