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Fountain pen in porcelain polychrome of Fontainebleau signed JP for Jacob Petit * representing an Orientalist woman, an Ottoman probably, richly clad and holding a flower in the hand, of the nineteenth century.
This subject is in good condition and is of remarkable quality. It is signed below.
To note: small break on the cut and on the flower (cf red arrows), slight wear of the decoration and the gilding in places, wear and dirty time, see photos.
The most famous porcelain-maker of the century did not have the vocation of a ceramist. He began by studying painting at Gros, then runs through Europe. England gave him a taste for the decorative object. On his return to France in 1830, he quickly published a collection of interior decoration that included everything related to furnishing. Soon, porcelain seems to him the best way to express his tastes. In Sèvres , an ephemeral workshop will be a first attempt. About 1830, Jacob Petit , set up a business in Belleville. Success and ambition helped, in 1838, the porcelain buys the modest enterprise of Baruch Weill , Fontainebleau; It is success, he quickly tripled the number of workers. In 1850, he grouped his two factories in Avon, but a few years later, in 1862, retired in the Rue du Paradis-Poissonnière, yielding his business to one of his workmen, Jacquemain.
