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Tidy decorative polychrome porcelain Paris, chiseled gilt brass frame with vine leaves, shaped woven basket and flowers, signed JP for Jacob Petit *, of XIXth century.
This basket is bpn condition and is of outstanding quality. It is signed under and merchant label stationer Jouanne rue Neuve du Luxembourg Paris.
A note: small break on a pink flower basket, little accidents and breakages on the basket, slight wear of time, see pictures (see red arrows).
the most famous porcelain of the century did not have the vocation of ceramist. He began studying painting at Gros and short Europe. England, gives him a taste for the decorative item on his return to France in 1830, he hastens to publish a Compendium of interior decor includes all that relates to furniture. Soon, porcelain seems to him the best way to express his tastes. A Sèvres, an ephemeral workshop will be the first attempt. Around 1830, Jacob Petit, up a business in Belleville. The success and helping ambition, in 1838, the porcelain bought the small company Weill Baruch at Fontainebleau; it is the success, he was quick to triple the number of workers. In 1850 he group its two factories in Avon, but a few years later, in 1862, withdrew rue du Paradis Poissonnière, giving his business to one of his workers, Jacquemain.
