baluster-shaped porcelain vases from Valentine in Saint-Gaudens, decorated with pastoral motifs in medallions, as well as gilded scrolls and arabesques. Each vase has two short, foliate handles. Numbered "4" under the base. 19th century. Circa 1850
The Valentine factory is a porcelain manufactory founded in 1832, following the discovery of a kaolin vein in the central Pyrenees at Valentine, near Saint-Gaudens in Haute-Garonne. It is the only porcelain factory in southern France. Driven out by political troubles, former potters from Moustiers-Sainte-Marie founded a factory in Toulouse at the dawn of the 19th century. As early as 1820, the Fouque and Arnoux earthenware factory, located on Place Saint-Sernin in Toulouse, employed seventy workers and had an annex at La Valentine, near Saint-Gaudens, where the two factories were merged in 1832. These "Valentine porcelains," produced in Saint-Gaudens, are hard-paste, pure white, milky, with a very glossy glaze. The finest pieces are colored with cobalt blue and chrome green embedded in the clay. The decorations are very often enriched with floral bouquets and gold threads painted on the enamel. After a period of great success between 1840 and 1855, the company slowly declined before going bankrupt in 1878.
Condition report : slight wear to the gilding. One of the vases has a crack.
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- Reference :
- 2224
- Availability :
- Item available
- Width :
- 14 (cm)
- Height :
- 22 (cm)
- Depth :
- 13 (cm)
- Era:
- 19th century
- Materials:
- porcelain
