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Fine earthenware plate of the Manufacture Bordeaux Vieillard *, model of Eugene Millet said "Great Birds", Japanese design representing a cock based on a dragonfly, signed below, vintage late nineteenth century.
This plate is in good condition. It is signed below a seal with Japanese inscription.
A note: slight enamelling defects and scratches in the bottom, some stains on the edges and ass, slight wear of the gilding on the edge, wear of time, see photos.
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Adopting for its earthenware the English process, the Bordeaux ceramic takes in the nineteenth century a new boom. As production becomes industrial, it opens up to a wider audience without loss of quality. David Johnston, having founded a pottery on the quai du Bataclan, joined forces in 1840 with Jules Vieillard (1813-1868), a Parisian merchant. Succeeding him six years later, the latter skilfully uses techniques specific to fine earthenware. Multiplying the decorations, Vieillard creates an elegant ceramic answering the taste of a bourgeois clientele. On his death in 1868, his two sons, Albert and Charles Vieillard, took over the factory, which then employed one thousand three hundred workers. At the beginning of the Third Republic, the pottery Bordeaux ranks third in the importance of ceramic establishments, behind the manufactures of Sarreguemines and Creil-Montereau. In addition to a good distribution network in Paris, it also benefits from the export market, carried by ships loaded with great wines leaving the port of Bordeaux. Faience Vieillard, crowned several times at the world exhibitions, are distinguished by the delicacy of their execution and by the variety of their decorative motifs. From a regional estate, our service, advanced around 20 000 €, illustrates the Japanese fashion. Eugène Millet, its creator, refers to the prints of Hokusaï. Unlike the Bracquemond service performed for Creil-Montereau, he draws here birds flying over the entire surface of faience. Sharpening the appetite of museums, amateurs and international trade, it goes to brighten the home of a Parisian buyer. (See website of the Drouot Gazette, A. Coureau SVV).
