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The body is faïence fine, transfer printed on white under a thin fused glaze.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBowl and foot were thrown separately and joined while the clay was still soft, and the join reads as a slight ridge where the bowl meets the stem. A green line at the base of the foot answers the green line at the rim. The border is a flowering branch, one continuous stem with long lanceolate leaves and clusters of flat five-petal blossoms sprouting along it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnmarked. Heavy tea-brown staining across the well, dense toward the center, with fine crazing throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe compotier was a fixture of the French dessert service, and its point is height: fruit raised above the table, on display and clear of everything else. The border is a garland, an old device given a new form at the turn of the century. Where the neoclassical version used laurel, tight and symmetrical, this one carries a flowering branch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUse it on a kitchen island with fruit, or near a prep area with onions, garlic and shallots. In a bathroom it can hold soaps or hand towels, and on a vanity it can hold accessories as a catch-all. It can also be styled as a riser in a vignette, holding books or a sculptural piece.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"foundresse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56879348547750,"sku":"FD-010","price":128.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/7645\/6870\/files\/IMG_6868.jpg?v=1785418892"},{"product_id":"antique-french-tin-glazed-faience-plate-blanc-de-faience","title":"Blanc de Faïence Platter","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAntique French Tin-Glazed Faïence Platter, Blanc de Faïence\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeriod\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e18th to early 19th century, French\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e12 inches across, 1½ inches deep\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrench tin-glazed faïence, undecorated white, blanc de faïence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe white is a glaze over a tan body. Both sides were glazed, so the platter rested on supports called pernettes in the kiln, seen by the three marks around the bottom rim. The glaze is a warm ivory that pools thicker in the hollows of the shaped rim. The rim was press-molded into soft scalloped lobes that vary slightly in width, the foot is flat and hand-formed, and there are scattered dark specks and grit in the glaze from the firing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor a tin-glazed piece of this age the condition is remarkable. Rim chips with old dulled edges, glaze loss to the rim underside, utensil scratching across the well, and warm discoloration overall. Unmarked, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTin glaze is an opaque white made with tin oxide, laid over ordinary colored clay to give a white surface to paint on or to leave plain. It was the standard method for French faïence through the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Blanc de faïence is the undecorated version, where the form and the glaze carry the piece by themselves. Plates of the period were considerably smaller than modern ones, so at twelve inches this was made as a serving piece.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHang it, or stand it on a dresser or plate rail where the shaped rim does the work. Serve bread, cheese or fruit from it. 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Barbotine is the colored-glaze relief technique English-speaking dealers know as majolica.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe well is deep, set within a scalloped and fluted rim edged in a thin ochre line and finishing at each end in a shell-form terminal, rococo revival in origin. Thistles run around the border on curving stems, lilac heads and turquoise leaves against a cream ground, the naturalism folded into Art Nouveau angles. Crazing runs throughout, and the gray speckling and staining to the center come from age and use.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAsparagus was expensive and briefly in season, so in France it was served as its own course, on services made for nothing else. The thistle was one of the recurring motifs of French Art Nouveau, taken up for its spined, architectural form. Art Nouveau drew its sinuous line partly from the rococo, which is why the scrolled ends sit so easily with it. 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Boulenger \u0026amp; Cie at Choisy-le-Roi, from a five-piece table service offered individually.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rim carries a laurel frieze printed in teal blue, paired sprigs tied off with ribbon at diamond medallions, lined along its inner edge with a narrow scalloped band, running continuously around the rim. The glaze is a warm ivory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe platter shows wear consistent with its age and use. Sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaurel bound with ribbon is a classical motif, carried into nineteenth century French ceramic pattern books as part of the wider neoclassical revival. H. Boulenger \u0026amp; Cie ran the Choisy-le-Roi works from 1863, when Hippolyte Boulenger renamed the firm, until the factory closed in 1934. Chinon takes its name from the town on the Loire, the same naming convention Sarreguemines used for its own Obernai pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUse it beneath a soup tureen as an underplate, or on its own for serving. Lean it on a plate rail, or hang it alone or with other plates on the wall. 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Chinon takes its name from the town on the Loire, the same naming convention Sarreguemines used for its own Obernai pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHang it, or use it on a plate rail where the border does the work. 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The glaze is a soft taupe and grey-brown wash over cream, with faint grey sprigs of seaweed painted between the wells, and it pools a little heavier in the low points of each shell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe glaze is clean throughout, with no chips or hairlines. Sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSaint-Amand-les-Eaux, in the French Nord near the Belgian border, has made ceramics since 1705, when Nicolas Desmoutiers first set up a faience works there, and the town is still best known for it. Garanti inaltérable was the guarantee against fading printed on French tableware backstamps through the twentieth century, and peint main marks the piece as hand-painted rather than transfer-decorated. Oyster plates took their sculpted form in France in the nineteenth century, when eating oysters directly from a shell-shaped well became standard at the table, and factories kept the molds in production for decades after. Most Saint-Amand oyster plates on the market today are glazed green and white. This taupe and grey palette is the less common of the two.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eServe oysters on it the way it was made to, one in each well and the sauce or a lemon half in the center. 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Each plate carries its own black transfer-printed scene in the well, a countryside activity tied to its month, captioned in French beneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEach plate shows wear consistent with age and use. Sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn assiette parlante, or talking plate, pairs an illustrated scene with a caption in the well, a genre French factories produced widely through the nineteenth and into the early twentieth century. Les mois de l'année à la campagne, the months of the year in the country, illustrates a countryside activity for each month, from a January skater to a May garden scene to an August harvest. Digoin and Sarreguemines merged into a single firm after the First World War, and this mark, a shield beneath a mural crown reading Digoin \u0026amp; Sarreguemines, France, dates to that merger, in use through the 1920s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHang it, or set it into a plate rail where the scene and border carry the wall. 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A continuous grapevine frieze runs around the rim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plate shows fading, staining, craquelure, and small chips consistent with its age. Sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1808, John Hurford Stone, Athanase Coquerel, and the printer Antoine Legros d'Anizy patented an underglaze transfer printing process for the Manufacture de Creil, and pieces carrying their printed mark date to the years that followed. Creil produced a series of plates depicting the monuments and views of French cities in this period, drawn from published engravings of the buildings shown. The Grand Théâtre, completed in 1780 to the designs of Victor Louis, remains one of Bordeaux's principal landmarks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHang it, or set it on a plate rail where the engraving reads clearly. It also anchors a grouping of other early French faience view plates.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"foundresse","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":56914526535846,"sku":null,"price":138.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/7645\/6870\/files\/75D192D0-5E95-4BC0-A79B-3BB5F26A03F3.jpg?v=1786114958"},{"product_id":"antique-french-faience-history-plate-regne-de-raoul-duc-de-bourgogne-manufacture-de-creil","title":"Black Transferware History Plate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAntique French Faience History Plate, Règne de Raoul Duc de Bourgogne, Manufacture de Creil\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeriod\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCirca 1820, French\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e8⅜ inches across\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn antique French faience plate printed in black with a scene from the reign of Raoul, tenth century king of France, made by the Manufacture de Creil under the printing patent of Stone, Coquerel et Le Gros.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe center shows a seated ruler receiving two women within a draped chamber, captioned below as Règne de Raoul Duc de Bourgogne. The rim carries a border of griffins paired with lyre-form urns, a neoclassical device drawn from the same decorative vocabulary popularized under the Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe plate shows fading, staining, craquelure, and small chips consistent with its age. Sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1808, John Hurford Stone, Athanase Coquerel, and the printer Antoine Legros d'Anizy patented an underglaze transfer printing process for the Manufacture de Creil, and pieces carrying their printed mark date to the years that followed. Alongside its city views, Creil produced a series depicting successive reigns from French history, drawn from published historical engravings. Raoul, also called Rodolphe of Burgundy, held the French throne from 922 to 936, in the turbulent decades between the Carolingian and Capetian dynasties.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHang it, or set it on a plate rail where the engraving reads clearly. It pairs naturally with the Versailles plate from the same series.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"foundresse","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":56914528600230,"sku":null,"price":128.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/7645\/6870\/files\/1D529DCC-4D1B-4B2C-9D6D-8F2C478A66A5.jpg?v=1786068765"},{"product_id":"primrose-asparagus-plate-salins-les-bains-1","title":"Primrose Asparagus Plate, Salins-les-Bains","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeriod\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMid-20th century, French, Jura\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9½ x 8¾ inches\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn asparagus plate from Salins-les-Bains, hand-painted in a soft cream and blush palette rather than saturated majolica color.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA shaped serving form with a ribbed asparagus bundle raised in the center well, a primrose spray with green leaves at each side. The outline is a single soft oval pinched in at each side rather than scalloped. Marked on the reverse Salins Les Bains, inaltérable, Made in France, Peint à la main.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSalins began producing pottery in 1857 at Salins-les-Bains in the Jura, and went on to win a silver medal at the 1889 Paris Universal Exposition and a gold medal at the 1912 Paris International Exhibition of Decorative Arts. Asparagus arrives in France each spring as its own event, sold by the bundle and given its own course on a plate made just for asparagus.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUse it as part of a plate wall, or as a catchall on a vanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"foundresse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56914897633446,"sku":"0515-015","price":98.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/7645\/6870\/files\/9FC68AA1-1F68-4FEB-8492-B26594FE17A8.jpg?v=1786065837"},{"product_id":"the-juliana-sarreguemines-soup-plate","title":"The Juliana, Sarreguemines — Soup Plate","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeriod\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLate 19th to early 20th century, French\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e9½ inches across\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSarreguemines faïence, transfer-printed in blue, in the Juliana pattern.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA soup plate with a deep, coupe well, bordered in cross-hatched ribbon bows, floral swags built from small dotted florets, and rosette medallions spaced singly between each swag, the whole band traced along both edges with a fine beaded line. Marked on the reverse Juliana, U\u0026amp;C, Sarreguemines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAge appropriate wear from use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eU\u0026amp;C stands for Utzschneider \u0026amp; Cie, the founding family name used on Sarreguemines marks, placing this in the pre-1920s production window before the factory changed hands. The bow-and-swag border with rosette paterae is a classic neoclassical device, established by the late 18th century and popular again across Belle Époque faïence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUse it as part of a table setting or in a decorative display, style it on a wall, or use it to hold fruit or as a catchall on a vanity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"foundresse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56914928337062,"sku":"T1-0514-018","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/7645\/6870\/files\/143D13A5-B15C-4A4E-BD40-692044C3F154.jpg?v=1786156054"},{"product_id":"lambrequin-shallow-bowl-saint-amand","title":"Lambrequin Shallow Bowl, Saint-Amand","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeriod\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEarly 20th century, French, Saint-Amand\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e11⅛ inches across, 2 inches tall\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrench faïence imprimée, transfer-printed in dark green on a ground gone warm with age.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA shallow bowl decorated with hanging lambrequin forms, draped, bell-like canopy shapes with scrolled lower edges, each holding a small floral spray. Below them runs a band of diamond lattice with dot and rosette accents, two stacked registers rather than one continuous motif.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNotable discoloration and staining throughout the ground, consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLambrequin is the standard French decorative-arts term for a hanging, scalloped drapery motif, borrowed from actual curtain valances and pelmets. 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The foot carries its own border, a scrolling band of acanthus vine, distinct from the rim pattern above. Marked on the reverse A. Lebacqz, St Amand, M. Bouchart, shape number 989.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA. Lebacqz and M. 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The glaze covers the interior and runs down the shoulder in a deep chestnut brown, stopping short of the rim and again above the foot, where the raw clay stays exposed. Two incised rings circle the shoulder, with a single ring set below them. The glazed interior is what made the pot work, it sealed the porous stoneware so rendered fat could not soak into the wall. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConfit pots take their name from the French confire, to preserve. They held cooked duck or goose packed under rendered fat, which is how meat was kept before refrigeration. Regional potters made them in quantity, rarely marked, in yellow, green, and brown glazes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall enough to work on a counter or open shelf as a utensil crock. 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The glaze is a soft grey-brown with darker flecks throughout, and the original cork stopper is still with it. The slot keeps the utensil with the pot rather than resting on the cloth, which is the whole point of the design. Includes the original cork. Utensils shown are for styling and are not included. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrench mustard was sold to households in stoneware pots rather than glass, and the pots stayed in the kitchen long after the mustard was gone. The molded slot is a maker's solution to a table problem, keeping the spoon upright and out of the cloth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeat a small mustard spoon in the slot as it was made to be used, or fit a set of tongs and keep olives or cornichons on the table instead. 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The glaze runs across the lid and body with a soft depth to it, and the base carries the triangular Sarreguemines mark reading Terre à Feu. The size is right for a single portion, a potted meat, a rillette, a bit of butter or confit set out for one. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarreguemines was one of the major French ceramic works, producing in Lorraine from the end of the 18th century. Terre à Feu was its flameware line, made to withstand direct heat and go from the oven to the table without a serving dish in between. Small terrines like this one held potted meats and rillettes, sealed under a layer of fat and kept in the larder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall enough to sit on a table year round, filled with salt, butter, or nothing at all. 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The clay is a soft oatmeal color, banded with throwing rings that circle the pot just below the handles. An incised 5 on the body marks the size, the way these were graded when they were made in quantity for kitchen use. The base is unglazed. There is a hairline on the body below the left handle, visible in the photos. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConfit pots take their name from the French confire, to preserve. They held cooked duck or goose packed under rendered fat, which is how meat was kept before refrigeration. Potters graded them by size and marked the number into the wet clay, so a pot could be ordered and replaced by its number rather than measured.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt this scale it holds its own on a counter or a hearth, empty or filled. 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The glaze has gone iridescent in places, that faint shifting sheen you find on very old lead-glazed pots where the surface has slowly broken down. Glaze losses across the body expose the pale clay underneath, and there is chipping along the rim. The lower body and base are unglazed, as they were made. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConfit pots take their name from the French confire, to preserve. They held cooked duck or goose packed under rendered fat, which is how meat was kept before refrigeration. 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The body is a warm tan that thins to pale buff toward the base, and the handle is glazed darker and glossier than the pot itself, with finger grooves running its length. Two incised lines circle the body below the shoulder. The rim is thick and rolled, glazed over, and the interior is lined in pale grey-cream with the throwing rings still visible. The base is unglazed, with faint incised marks near the edge that no longer read. There is chipping around the base edge in several places and one larger chip on the lower body. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSalt-glazed grès was the workhorse ceramic of the French kitchen, thrown in quantity by potteries in northern and eastern France and sold plain. The interior lining glaze is the functional part, it sealed the porous wall so the pot could hold fat, mustard, or preserves without absorbing them. 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Columns of holes run down the walls and a dense field of them covers the base, and three small applied feet lift the pot so the whey can run clear underneath. The stoneware body is a warm reddish brown, unglazed and dense and smooth to the hand, with throwing rings still visible inside. A yellowish-green speckled deposit spreads across one side, kiln ash that settled on the pot during a wood firing. Faint incised marks near the base no longer read. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaisselles were standard equipment in the French farmhouse dairy. Fresh curd went in, the whey drained out through the walls and base, and what stayed behind was fromage frais or the start of a firmer cheese. Every region made them, thrown plain and left unglazed. 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Columns of holes run down the walls and more pierce the base, and the legs lift the pot well clear of the surface so the whey can run off freely. An olive-green ash glaze pools along the rim and runs down into the interior, with amber drips falling down the outside of the body. The glaze is uneven and directional, the mark of ash settling on one side of the pot during a wood firing rather than glaze applied by hand. Throwing rings are visible inside, with bare clay showing at the center of the base. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaisselles were standard equipment in the French farmhouse dairy. Fresh curd went in, the whey drained out through the walls and base, and what stayed behind was fromage frais or the start of a firmer cheese. 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The tin glaze is an opaque milk white running over a warm reddish-buff clay, covering the pot inside and out, and a fine crazing network spreads across the whole surface. Glaze losses along the rim edge and around the foot expose the clay underneath, and that line of terracotta against the white is much of what makes it. The interior is fully glazed. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe straight-sided body with a flared collar is the standard French form for a small lidded pot, made for pommade, ointment, mustard, or confiture depending on who ordered it. Tin glaze was the way to get a true opaque white on ordinary earthenware, and the same glaze covers everything from apothecary jars to kitchen ware. 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Small enough for a bathroom counter holding cotton or brushes, or a desk, or the table with salt in it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foundresse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57278626496678,"sku":"FD-054-040","price":114.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/7645\/6870\/files\/216FC962-577E-4F19-9B60-EF9BA5424ACC.jpg?v=1788804054"},{"product_id":"vintage-french-stoneware-pot-with-ear-handles","title":"Antique French Confit Pot with Ear Handles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeriod:\u003c\/strong\u003e 19th century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4 inches tall, 4½ inches across the handles, 3½ inch base\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA small salt-glazed stoneware pot with two applied ear handles, oreilles, set just below the shoulder. The body is straight-sided in a warm brown, with a flat stepped ledge at the shoulder and a short collar rim rising from it, the ledge being where a lid once seated. The interior is lined in pale grey glaze, and the base is bare buff clay. A size mark reading 3\/C is incised into the body, and dark iron specks scatter through the glaze. There is a small glaze chip at the rim edge. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSalt-glazed grès was the workhorse ceramic of the French kitchen, thrown in quantity by potteries in northern and eastern France and sold plain. Pots this size held fat, mustard, or preserves, and the ear handles were for lifting and for tying a cloth or paper cover down over the rim. 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The form is wide at the mouth and narrow at the foot, unglazed outside and lined inside with a dark reddish-brown glaze that kept the resin from soaking into the wall. The exterior is heavily weathered, blotched dark brown across the upper body from years of resin staining, with pale earth tones below. The rim is rough and uneven with chipping along the edge, and the base carries white mineral deposits. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Landes forest in southwest France was planted in maritime pine in the 19th century, and tapping the trees for resin became the region's industry. A résinier cut a strip of bark, fixed a metal gutter below it, and hung a pot like this one underneath to catch the flow. 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A ring of holes is pierced around the lower wall, another ring circles the base, and a single hole runs through the center. The rim is rolled, with chipping along the edge and at the foot. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFaisselles were standard equipment in the French farmhouse dairy. Fresh curd went in, the whey drained out through the holes, and what stayed behind was fromage frais or the start of a firmer cheese. The shallow footed version made a wider, flatter cheese than the deep pots, and the raised foot held the base holes clear so the whey could run away underneath.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe glaze and the pedestal make this one the most finished of the faisselles, so it works on a table rather than only a shelf. 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The body is a warm orange brown with the fine pebbled surface that salt thrown into the kiln leaves behind, and a band of incised lines runs around the shoulder. The rim steps in to a short pale collar where a lid once sat, and the interior is glazed a pale grey with the throwing rings still visible. The base is bare buff clay. One handle has a chip at its foot exposing the pale clay beneath, and there is a fine line at the base of the other. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePots like this were the working storage of the French larder, holding rendered fat, salted meat, confit, or lard through the winter. The stoneware traditions of northern and eastern France, Normandy, the Beauvaisis, the Puisaye, and Alsace, fired them hard enough to be fully waterproof, and salt vaporized in the kiln fused with the clay surface to make the glaze itself. 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The body is a fine cream stoneware under a clear glaze, thrown as a plain cylinder with a slightly flared rim and a ridge at the foot. The interior is glazed white, the base left bare. The lid is long gone, as it is on most of these. A hairline crack runs from the rim down one side, there is a small brown fleck on the front, and the glaze shows light crazing and staining inside. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaint-Uze sits in the Drôme, on the Rhône south of Lyon, and its potteries turned out durable fine stoneware for French kitchens from the mid 19th century on. Their labeled canister sets, farine, sucre, café, sel, poivre and the rest, ran in graduated sizes and lined the shelves of nearly every household. The blue floral border was the house pattern, printed from a transfer so each piece matched the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe obvious job is wooden spoons by the stove, and it does that well. It also holds pencils on a desk, makeup brushes on a dresser, or a bunch of dried lavender. Group it with other blue and white pieces and the lettering becomes the point.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Foundresse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57293423804582,"sku":"FD-059-015","price":118.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/7645\/6870\/files\/E5C97E3C-F4ED-41C0-96FB-87D616BD7161.jpg?v=1788879308"},{"product_id":"antique-belgian-stoneware-crock-brussels-stencil","title":"Antique Belgian Stoneware Crock, Brussels Stencil","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeriod:\u003c\/strong\u003e Early 20th century\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 4¼ inches tall, 4½ inch base, 4 inch opening, 6½ inches across the handles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Belgian grey stoneware crock stenciled in cobalt blue for H. Declercq-Vandevel of Brussels, whose Chef-d'Oeuvre trademark sits in a lozenge above the shop address at 63 Rue Heyvaert. The pot is salt-glazed grès in the pale grey of the Rhenish and Belgian tradition, thrown with a full belly, two applied ear handles, and a flat rolled rim. The interior is glazed the same grey with some rust spotting at the bottom. A crack runs from the rim down through one handle, and the rim edge has several chips. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRue Heyvaert runs through Anderlecht beside the old Brussels abattoirs, and the merchants along it sold butter, lard, and prepared meats to the whole city. Pots like this one went out full of product and were meant to be returned, which is why the shop stenciled its name and registered trademark on the side. 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It is a plain straight-sided cylinder with a rolled rim and a fine ridge below it, the kind of jar sold full of confiture or pâté and kept in the kitchen afterward. The glaze has crazed all over and the fine lines have taken on a tea-brown stain that reads like marbling across the whole surface, which is what gives the piece its color now. There is a small brown fleck on the rim and light speckling inside. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBadonviller sits near Lunéville in the Meurthe-et-Moselle, and its faïencerie was founded in 1897 by the Fenal family, who later ran the Pexonne works as well. The factory made everyday tableware and kitchen ceramics in white faïence fine until it closed in 1963. Jars like this were packaging first, holding preserves and potted meats from the grocer, and the good ones stayed on for spoons, pencils, and whatever else needed a home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall enough to sit anywhere. Use it on a nightstand for rings and hairpins, on a desk for pens, or on the bathroom counter with cotton pads. 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The glaze is a warm cream that has crazed all over into a fine network, and it has taken on a tan stain across the interior and in patches on the body and base. The base is flat with a shallow recessed center and carries the printed Pexonne mark, a shield with FF and stars. Scattered dark specks in the glaze are from the firing. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe faïencerie de Pexonne, in the Vosges foothills of Lorraine, was founded in 1720 and is one of the oldest in the region. The Fenal family owned it from 1836, and the FF mark is Fenal Frères, the partnership of brothers and nephews who ran it through its busiest years around 1900, when the works employed close to four hundred people making everything from tableware to faïence stoves. Plain pots like this one were made for the pantry, holding butter, rillettes or preserves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSmall enough for a desk or a nightstand, holding pens or a few stems. 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Raised ribs run down the full body in vertical bands. The lead glaze is a mottled olive green that shifts to ochre and brown where it runs thin, and it has developed an iridescent sheen across the shoulder. Inside the neck the red clay is bare. All three handles and the spout are intact. The glaze has flaked over much of the surface, exposing red clay in scattered patches and most heavily around the lower body and rim, and there is chipping to the rim and spout tip. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJugs like this held walnut oil, the everyday cooking oil across central France, Auvergne, Limousin and the Périgord, where walnut trees grew and olives did not. A full jug was heavy, so potters gave them three handles, two to carry and one to tip, and a spout for pouring without lifting the whole thing off the floor. The ribs were applied by hand in wet clay, and the green comes from copper in the lead glaze, fired over red earthenware.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a floor or hearth piece. Stand it beside a fireplace, at the foot of a staircase, or on a stone floor in an entry. 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The handles are pulled with three ridges along their length, and raised ribs run down the body in vertical bands. The lead glaze is a warm amber brown, deepening to olive where it pools beside the ribs and along the shoulder, with a glossy surface over most of the body. The base is bare red clay, and the throwing rings show inside the neck. Both handles and the spout are intact. Glaze losses are limited to small flakes on the body, handles and rim, with chipping at the spout tip. There is a small hole drilled through the center of the base, from a later conversion, which does not show when the jug is standing. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJugs like this held walnut oil, the everyday cooking oil across central France, Auvergne, Limousin and the Périgord, where walnut trees grew and olives did not. A full jug was heavy, so the handles are wide and set high for a two-handed lift, and the spout let it be poured without tipping the whole thing. The ribs were applied by hand in wet clay, and the amber comes from iron in the lead glaze, fired over red earthenware.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA floor or hearth piece. Stand it beside a fireplace or at the base of a console, or use it in a kitchen with tall branches. 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The body is smooth and full, without ribs. The lead glaze is a warm ochre that shifts to olive and chestnut where it runs thick, and it has developed an iridescent sheen across the shoulder and body. The original stopper is still with it, a cork wrapped in layers of dark cloth, and it lifts out. The spout is blackened with old hardened oil. Both handles and the spout are intact. The glaze has flaked in small patches over the body, neck and handles, exposing the red clay, and the base carries a dark crust of old residue with fragments of paper labels stuck into it. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJugs like this held walnut oil, the everyday cooking oil across central France, Auvergne, Limousin and the Périgord, where walnut trees grew and olives did not. A full jug was heavy, so the handles are wide and set high for a two-handed lift, and the spout let it be poured without tipping the whole thing. The cloth-wrapped stopper kept dust and light out of the oil between uses, and the blackening at the spout is what walnut oil does over decades of pouring.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA floor or hearth piece, or the anchor of a kitchen counter. 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The decoration is a blue lambrequin motif, a hanging pointed swag with a scrolled top, printed in pairs around the body and in four groups across the lid. The glaze is a warm cream that has crazed all over into a fine network and taken a tan stain across the interior. The base is unglazed and incised 23. Crazing throughout, a hairline crack across the interior base, an old chip with a hairline at the lid rim, and rim wear. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSaint-Uze is a village in the Drôme, south of Lyon, that sat on a bed of fine white clay. Its potteries turned that clay into a hard, close-grained stoneware through the nineteenth century, plain kitchen and table pieces that could go into the oven, and blue decoration printed onto the cream body was their signature. The lambrequin itself is a border borrowed from textiles, the scalloped pelmet along a bed canopy, and it had been a French faïence motif since Rouen around 1700. Dishes of this shape went from oven to table for stews and baked vegetables, and the lugs are sized for a cloth in each hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eStyling Ideas\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUse it at the table for butter, olives or a warm side dish, or keep it on the counter holding salt, garlic or tea bags. On a bathroom vanity it holds cotton and soap, and with the lid off it takes a small plant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"foundresse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57295230501030,"sku":"FD-065-030","price":162.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0637\/7645\/6870\/files\/D52C0371-9CA8-4431-A382-650D5DFB4567.jpg?v=1788885448"},{"product_id":"antique-french-confit-pot-with-ear-handles-small","title":"Antique French Confit Pot with Ear Handles, Small","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeriod:\u003c\/strong\u003e Early 20th century, French\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSize:\u003c\/strong\u003e 5 inches tall, 6 inches wide with the handles, 3½ inch mouth, 4¼ inch base\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA small stoneware confit pot with a swelling body, two pulled ear handles at the shoulder, a wide rolled rim, and a band of incised rings at the shoulder. The glaze is a bright warm cream, glossy inside and out, with a soft satin finish over the body. The rim and base are left bare where the pot sat on the kiln shelf. A few dark specks in the glaze are from the firing. Wear consistent with age and use, sold as found.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHistorical Context\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePots of this shape held confit, duck or pork cooked slowly in its own fat and stored under it through the winter, and they came in a run of sizes from a single serving up to the family crock. This is one of the smallest, made for a portion or two, and pots this size were just as often used for salt, lard or rendered fat by the stove. 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