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Cup and saucer in Paris porcelain, signed JP for Jacob Petit *, rich decoration of bouquets of multicolored flowers and gilding, XIXth century.
This cup is in good condition. It is signed below.
A note: slight enamelling defects in the upper handle (see last photo), slight wear time especially on gilding, see photos.
the most famous porcelain maker of the century did not have the vocation of ceramist. He begins by studying painting at Gros, then runs Europe. England gives him a taste for the decorative object: on his return to France in 1830, he hastens to publish a collection of interior decoration including all that relates to furniture. Soon, porcelain seems to him the best way to express his tastes. In Sèvres , an ephemeral workshop will be a first attempt. Around 1830, Jacob Petit , set up a business in Belleville. Success and ambition helped in 1838, the porcelain buys the modest business of Baruch Weill , Fontainebleau; it is success, he has quickly tripled the number of workers. In 1850, he grouped his two factories in Avon, but a few years later, in 1862, he left rue du Paradis-Poissonnière, yielding his business to one of his workers, Jacquemain.
