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Very nice sculpture earthenware Blois *, representing a salamander (emblem of François I) Vintage late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
This sculpture is in good condition. It is signed and numbered below.
A report: the head was glued, égrenures on the legs, wear time u see photos.
* In 1500, the priors of St. John Blois (Loir-et-Cher) had a stove tiles they yawned. The Merchants Almanac 1781 tells us that there were three Blois earthenware active: the Baudry, Rafarin than that of older and younger Rafarin. Ulysse Ulysse Besnard said, and his collaborator Tortat made from 1855 to 1875 tin earthenware, painted enamel vintage. The paint was slightly attached by a small fire and ice then a varnish plumbous very translucent, like the Italians of the sixteenth century. Their main decorative motif was the salamander of François 1st. They also used as decoration, metallic sheen well come. Workshops of this factory were located on the banks of the Loire. In August 1866, Besnard became curator of the Museum of Blois. Tortat broke Ulysses in 1862 and moved to his account in 1872. He copied the first models of his former partner, then he tin enamel light blue, dark blue, ... he disposed by keys chimeras, masks and other decorative motifs, come in solid white and enhanced, sometimes ocher, red, brun.Fermeture all the factories in 1953.
