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Very nice and rare dessert plate in fine earthenware manufacturing Bordeaux Old Man * Model Eugene Millet said "For the Great Birds", Japanese-style decoration depicting a heron standing in a pool of water, signed underneath, period late nineteenth century.
This plate is in good condition. It is signed under a seal japonisante registration.
A note: it is slightly yellowed and stained in the background, wear on the edge, small chip on the edge (red arrow), slight defects of enamel in the background, time wear, see photos.
We put a lot of pieces of the same model for sale on this site.
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Adopter for its pottery the English method, the ceramic is Bordeaux in the nineteenth century a new boom. Becoming industrial production, it opens to a wider audience without losing quality. David Johnston, who founded a pottery on the dock of Bataclan associates in 1840 to Julius Old Man (1813-1868), a Parisian merchant. Succeeding him six years later, it skillfully use specific techniques to fine earthenware. Multiplying the sets, Old Man carries an elegant ceramic meet the taste of a bourgeois clientele. Upon his death in 1868, his two son, Albert and Charles Old man, take over the factory, which then employs 1300 workers. At the beginning of the Third Republic, Bordeaux earthenware ranks third in importance ceramics institutions behind the manufactures of Sarreguemines and Creil-Montereau. Besides a good Parisian distribution network, it also benefits the export market, driven by ships loaded with great wines leaving the port of Bordeaux. Earthenware Old man, crowned several times at international expositions, are distinguished by the delicacy of execution as well as the variety of decorative motifs. From a regional estate, our service, advanced around € 20,000, illustrates the Japanese style mode. Eugene Millet, its creator, refers to the prints of Hokusai. Unlike Bracquemond service performed for Creil-Montereau, he draws here birds flying across the surface of the tiles. Whetting the appetite of museums, amateurs and international trade, he leaves brighten the remains of a Parisian buyer. (See website of the Gazette Drouot, A. Coureau SVV).
