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Very pretty cup and saucer porcelain of Paris, signed JP for Jacob Petit *, richly decorated with colorful flowers and gilt, of XIXth century.
This cup is in good condition. They are signed below.
A report: slight lack of decor (see last photo), slight wear time.
the most famous porcelain century had no vocation ceramist. He started studying painting at Gros and short Europe. England, gave him a taste of the decorative object on his return to France in 1830, he hastens to publish a Code of Decor includes everything that relates to furniture. Soon, porcelain seemed the best way to express their tastes. A Sèvres, a workshop will be a fleeting first attempt. 1830, Jacob Petit, mounts a case in Belleville. Success and ambition helping, in 1838, bought the small porcelain enterprise Baruch Weill, Fontainebleau, is the success, he quickly tripled the number of workers. In 1850, his group two factories in Avon, but a few years later, in 1862, withdrew rue du Paradis Poissonnière, giving his business to one of his workers, Jacquemain.
