Pair of French Valentine Porcelain Vases

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Pair of French Valentine Porcelain Vases

About the Item

Valentine Porcelain Manufacture. A very fine Pair of Oriental style porcelain Vases. France, circa 1850 Height : 45 cm (17 3/4 in.) ; Diameter : 25 cm (9 3/4 in.) x 22 cm (8 2/3 in.) A lovely pair of baluster form vases made of white porcelain, richly decorated with a polychrome floral bouquet painted on the front cartridge, bordered by a pierced and gold frieze on a "Valentine Blue" background. A fine gilded oriental style stylized foliate decor adorns the whole vase, while a more sober decor of blue and gold adorns his back. Biography Valentine Porcelain : The Valentine factory was a porcelain factory founded in 1832, following the discovery of a vein of kaolin in the central Pyrenees, at Saint -Gaudens. It was the only porcelain factory located in the south of France. Driven by political troubles, former porcelain makers of Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, founded in the early nineteenth century a factory in Toulouse. By 1820, this factory named “Fouque and Arnoux, earthenware manufacturers, Place Saint-Sernin in Toulouse," with seventy workers, installed a second factory in Saint-Gaudens, on the banks of the river Garonne, where the two factories finally consolidated in 1832. The factory employing up to 250 workers in the 1850s, was facing the Valentine hill, from where the 6 ovens of the factory were refueling with wood, and which gave then its name to the porcelain wares. These “Valentine porcelain wares," produced until 1878 in Saint-Gaudens, were made in pure white and milky hard-paste, with very bright enamel, and whose famous ”Valentine Blue” vases were colored with cobalt-blue. The decor was often enriched with floral bouquets and gold lines painted on enamel.

Creator:
Valentine Porcelain Manufacture (Manufacturer)
Dimensions:
Height: 17.72 in (45 cm)Diameter: 9.85 in (25 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 2
Style:
Louis Philippe (Of the Period)
Materials and Techniques:
Porcelain
Place of Origin:
France
Period:
19th Century
Date of Manufacture:
circa 1850
Condition:
Seller Location:
Paris, FR
Reference Number:
Seller: ref. 0912/151stDibs: LU104781215296