Description:
Two creamware octagonal dishes with beaded rims and an impressed "C" on one base and an impressed "MONTEREAU" on the other. Versions of English creamware were made in France mainly from the early 1770s, with most of the ventures assisted with potters from Staffordshire. This set was made at Montereau (Seine-et-Marne), one of the earliest French creamware factory established in 1745 by Etienne-Francois Mazois (d.1774). After difficulties with the French state authorities on his right to produce faience "facon d'Angleterre" in 1748, which were resolved in 1749, Mazois manufacturing pottery in Montereau until his death in 1774. His widow leased the concern to a consortium of English and French entrepreneurs managed by J. Holker; later British owners included John Hulme (known as Hall) and Christopher Potter. Montereau joined with the nearby creamware Creil factory in 1818-25 and 1840-95; although Creil closed in 1895, Montereau continued using its name until 1955. Creil's name has become synonymous with transfer-printed earthenware in France, although subsequently much was made elsewhere. Established in 1795, Creil was one of the first french factories to produce creamware to imitate and compete with the mass of inexpensive tablewares exported from British factories such as Wedgwood. Their transfer-printed designs in black, sepia or reddish-brown included buildings, people, landscapes, hunting scenes and, in the late 19th century, satirical subjects.
Subjects:
Pottery; glaze (coating by location) Link to share this object record:
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