Nevers manufactory

Nevers manufactory
French porcelain
Faience with Chinese scenes Nevers Manufactory 1680 1700.jpg

Faience with Chinese scenes,
Nevers manufactory, 1680-1700.
  • Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles
French adaptation: Blue and white ceramic with Chinese scene, Nevers manufactory, France, end of the 17th century.
Nevers faience with design of the French Revolution. Musée Lambinet, Versailles.

The Nevers manufactory (French: "Manufacture de faïence de Nevers") was a French manufacturing center for faience in the city of Nevers. A porcelain manufactury in Nevers was also mentioned in 1844 by Alexandre Brongniart, but little is known about it.[1]

It is at the Nevers manufactory that Chinese-style blue and white wares were produced for the first time in France, with production running between 1650 and 1680.[2] Chinese styles would then be taken up by factories in Normandy, especially following the foundation of the French East India Company in 1664.[2]

Various epochs characterize the production of Nevers[1]:

  • 1600-1660: Italian style
  • 1650-1750: Chinese and Japanese style
  • 1630-1700: Persian style
  • 1640-1789: Franco-Nivernais style
  • 1700-1789: Rouen style
  • 1730-1789: Moustiers style
  • 1770-1789: Saxe style
  • 1789: Decadence

See also

Nevers faience vases with Chinese scenes, circa 1700.

Notes

  1. ^ a b Pottery and Porcelain: A Guide to Collectors by Frederick Litchfield p.219
  2. ^ a b The Grove encyclopedia of materials and techniques in art Gerald W. R. Ward p.38
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