Ceramic Figurative Paintings

Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. König combines modern painting with acrylic with old techniques and in this way, h...

Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. König combines modern painting with acrylic with old techniques and in this way, he connects contemporary art with tradition. The natural clay color bestows the pictures with a completely special dim texture which stands in an exciting contrast with the delicate luster of the acrylic color. The features of the clay color allow a more intensive treatment of the surface. Often, there are lines, scratches or breaks in the surface, as if the canvas had been covered with a fair patina. More subtle strokes in the color bring graphic characters to mind, color gradients natural phenomena, divided canvasses the contrast which is immanent in everything: the principle of yin and yan. Roger König's works are in private collections worldwide. His admirers include leading figures in international business, film and media. Submit Best Offer, all reasonable offers will be considered Signed front 'Roger König'; signed reverse 'Roger König' This original artwork includes a Certificate of Authenticity . The piece will be stamped from Roger König Art...

Art measures 19.68 x 19.68 inches Frame measures 27.56 x 27.56 x 2.76 inches Framed in a high-quality contemporary wooden moulding. Color: antique white - vintage Artist: Roger...

Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. König combines modern painting with acrylic with old techniques and in this way, h...

Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. König combines modern painting with acrylic with old techniques and in this way, h...

Artist: Roger Koenig b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. Koenig combines modern painting with acrylic with old...

This is a rare ceramic plaque painted with enamel glaze by famed Israeli German artist Irene Awret is signed Awret Safed on the verso. the actual glazed ceramic is 10X15 inches. Irène Awret was born to a Jewish family in Berlin called Spicker, the youngest of three children. Her mother died in 1927, when Irène was six years old. In 1937 she was forced to stop high school, due to the Nazi race laws. Because she could not continue her regular studies, her father sent her to study drawing, painting and art restoration with a Jewish painter. Among his students were a large number of German Jews who knew they would have to leave Germany within a short time and would require a profession to enable them to support themselves. When the situation grew worse, following the Kristallnacht (the first major attack on German and Austrian Jews in November 1938), her uncle decided to move to Belgium. In 1939 the situation became even worse - her father was fired from his job and the family were forced to leave their home. As a result, Awret's father tried to send her and her sister to Belgium, with the help of smugglers. The first smuggler proved to be a double agent and they were sent back from Aachen to Berlin. Two weeks later they made a second, successful, attempt to sneak across the border. Awret worked for a Dutch Jewish family as a maid. As she had her room and board there, she was able to save enough money to study art part-time at Brussels' Académie Royal des Beaux-Arts. A few months later Awret's father joined her and her financial situation became easier. She left her job and studied full-time, helping support herself with restoration work when it was available and by painting portraits to order. Later, Awret found a hiding place on a farm in Waterloo with a Jewish family who were connected with the underground. In January 1943 she had to return to Brussels, living with a false identity card which stated she was a married woman with two children. Awret succeeded in renting an attic without informing the police where she was - she told her landlady that she had been forced to flee her husband because he beat her. While there, she supported herself by restoring wooden sculptures. A Jewish informer gave her up to the Gestapo, accompanying the two Gestapo men who arrested her. Awret was able to take a bag containing food and drawing materials. She was detained in the Gestapo cellars in Brussels where she drew. Because there was nothing there to draw, she sketched her own hand (view this work). Awret was interrogated in order to reveal the hiding place of her father who was still in Brussels. The National Socialist regime was determined to persecute him, even though he had fought for Germany in World War I and been permanently disabled. They stepped up their torture and brought Awret before Hartmann, the head of the Gestapo in Brussels. When Hartmann saw her block of drawings, he asked her where she had studied art and halted the interrogation. Awret was placed in a narrow cell and then transferred to Malines camp, which the Belgian's called Mechelen. Malines was a transit camp to Auschwitz, regularly sending 2000 people at a time. Although she arrived just before Transport No. 20, Irène Awret avoided being included. Instead she was put to work in the leather workshop, decorating broaches. While she was there, Hartmann visited the camp and spotted her: "I could have discovered where your father is hiding," he told her. When her artistic talents became known, she was transferred to the Mahlerstube (artist's workshop) where she worked producing graphics for the Germans until the end of the war. When Carol (Karel) Deutsch (whose works are now on view at Yad Vashem) was sent from Mechelen to his death with his wife, he left young Irene his paintbox. Irene also recalls seeing the great painter Felix Nussbaum and his wife being pushed into a boxcar bound for the gas, and tells of the aftermath of the famous 20th Train incident, when a young Jewish doctor armed only with a pistol and helped by two unarmed friends with a lantern ambushed one of Mechelen's Auschwitz-bound trains carrying 1,618 Jews, most of whom had fled Eastern Europe for Belgium. Awret's job enabled her to paint and draw - mainly in pencil, but also in watercolors and oils. In the artists' workshop she met a Jewish refugee from Poland - Azriel Awret...

Kader Boly is known for painting pastoral and communal scenes from his life as a nomadic herder in the Fulani tribe, on the plains of West Africa. Kader’s work is set apart using han...

Kader Boly is known for painting pastoral and communal scenes from his life as a nomadic herder in the Fulani tribe, on the plains of West Africa. Kader’s work is set apart using han...

Materials: Orogolite, canvas, oil, craquelure, nautilus shell, polymer clay, natural leather, parchment leather, bambek, decorative cord, copper, bronze casting / wenge-colored ash f...

Materials: Canvas on chipboard, polymer clay, genuine leather, parchment leather, bamboo, gold leaf, oil The image of a powerful Centaur who dreams of flying

Ticket office is a unique contemporary modern wall object by British artist Kate Brett. This one of a kind object consists of 144 handmade unglazed porc...

Depicting young ladies having a tea party by the pond of a country estate, and a young nobleman courting a young lady feeding the swans. Incised "KPM", scepter, "255 / 195" and signe...

This is a rare ceramic plaque painted with enamel glaze by famed Israeli German artist Irene Awret (these are generally hand signed Awret Safed on the verso. I just have not opened the frame to check) the actual glazed ceramic is 10.25 X 14.75 inches. It depicts a girl or woman with potted plants, birds, pomegranates and other fruits and flowers in a naif, folk art style. Irène Awret was born to a Jewish family in Berlin called Spicker, the youngest of three children. Her mother died in 1927, when Irène was six years old. In 1937 she was forced to stop high school, due to the Nazi race laws. Because she could not continue her regular studies, her father sent her to study drawing, painting and art restoration with a Jewish painter. Among his students were a large number of German Jews who knew they would have to leave Germany within a short time and would require a profession to enable them to support themselves. When the situation grew worse, following the Kristallnacht (the first major attack on German and Austrian Jews in November 1938), her uncle decided to move to Belgium. In 1939 the situation became even worse - her father was fired from his job and the family were forced to leave their home. As a result, Awret's father tried to send her and her sister to Belgium, with the help of smugglers. The first smuggler proved to be a double agent and they were sent back from Aachen to Berlin. Two weeks later they made a second, successful, attempt to sneak across the border. Awret worked for a Dutch Jewish family as a maid. As she had her room and board there, she was able to save enough money to study art part-time at Brussels' Académie Royal des Beaux-Arts. A few months later Awret's father joined her and her financial situation became easier. She left her job and studied full-time, helping support herself with restoration work when it was available and by painting portraits to order. Later, Awret found a hiding place on a farm in Waterloo with a Jewish family who were connected with the underground. In January 1943 she had to return to Brussels, living with a false identity card which stated she was a married woman with two children. Awret succeeded in renting an attic without informing the police where she was - she told her landlady that she had been forced to flee her husband because he beat her. While there, she supported herself by restoring wooden sculptures. A Jewish informer gave her up to the Gestapo, accompanying the two Gestapo men who arrested her. Awret was able to take a bag containing food and drawing materials. She was detained in the Gestapo cellars in Brussels where she drew. Because there was nothing there to draw, she sketched her own hand (view this work). Awret was interrogated in order to reveal the hiding place of her father who was still in Brussels. The National Socialist regime was determined to persecute him, even though he had fought for Germany in World War I and been permanently disabled. They stepped up their torture and brought Awret before Hartmann, the head of the Gestapo in Brussels. When Hartmann saw her block of drawings, he asked her where she had studied art and halted the interrogation. Awret was placed in a narrow cell and then transferred to Malines camp, which the Belgian's called Mechelen. Malines was a transit camp to Auschwitz, regularly sending 2000 people at a time. Although she arrived just before Transport No. 20, Irène Awret avoided being included. Instead she was put to work in the leather workshop, decorating broaches. While she was there, Hartmann visited the camp and spotted her: "I could have discovered where your father is hiding," he told her. When her artistic talents became known, she was transferred to the Mahlerstube (artist's workshop) where she worked producing graphics for the Germans until the end of the war. When Carol (Karel) Deutsch (whose works are now on view at Yad Vashem) was sent from Mechelen to his death with his wife, he left young Irene his paintbox. Irene also recalls seeing the great painter Felix Nussbaum and his wife being pushed into a boxcar bound for the gas, and tells of the aftermath of the famous 20th Train incident, when a young Jewish doctor armed only with a pistol and helped by two unarmed friends with a lantern ambushed one of Mechelen's Auschwitz-bound trains carrying 1,618 Jews, most of whom had fled Eastern Europe for Belgium. Awret's job enabled her to paint and draw - mainly in pencil, but also in watercolors and oils. In the artists' workshop she met a Jewish refugee from Poland - Azriel Awret - who would later become her husband. Among the other artists in the workshop were Herbert von Ledermann-Vütemberg, a sculptor from an aristocratic family with Jewish roots, Léon Landau, and Smilowitz, who perished in the camps in the East. Irène and Azriel tried to bribe a German officer to prevent Smilowitz's deportation. Not only were they unsuccessful, but they were almost put onto the same train. Jacques Ochs was another artist with whom they became friends in the camp. Ochs, a French-born Protestant who lived in Belgium, was interned as a political prisoner. He remained in Belgium after liberation. After the war the Awrets immigrated to Israel and made their home in Safed. They continued to work, and were instrumental in founding Safed's artists' quarter. The Beit Lohamei Haghetaot (Ghetto Fighters' House Museum) art collection holds works donated by Awret. These date from her time in Malines camp and from her stay in Brussels after the war, when she was in the company of orphans who had hidden while their parents were sent to Auschwitz. Her highly expressive works have made their way to exhibitions at theTel Aviv Museum, the Haifa Museum of Modern Art and the Modern Art Gallery in Washington, D.C., as well as into the private collections of such individuals as Dr. Jonas Salk...

"Guardian Angel" late 19th c. Original hand-painted KPM Porcelain In Jewel Encrusted Frame approx. 6 3/8 x 5 inches

Kader Boly is known for painting pastoral and communal scenes from his life as a nomadic herder in the Fulani tribe, on the plains of West Africa. Kader’s work is set apart using han...

Kader Boly is known for painting pastoral and communal scenes from his life as a nomadic herder in the Fulani tribe, on the plains of West Africa. Kader’s work is set apart by his us...

Kader Boly is known for painting pastoral and communal scenes from his life as a nomadic herder in the Fulani tribe, on the plains of West Africa. Kader’s work is set apart using han...

Kader Boly is known for painting pastoral and communal scenes from his life as a nomadic herder in the Fulani tribe, on the plains of West Africa. Kader’s w...

Portrait of a lady with long hair, wearing a kimono Date: late 19th/early 20th century Origin: Berlin Signed C. Schmidt on L/L Dimension: 9 1/4 in x 6 1/2 in

Kader Boly is known for painting pastoral and communal scenes from his life as a nomadic herder in the Fulani tribe, on the plains of West Africa. Kader’s w...

This plaque depicts a quintessential 19th century Northern European woman with blonde hair, blue eyes and modest European fashions. She holds a bushel of fresh flowers as an offering and to decorate the small stone statue of Mary and a young Jesus before...

Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. König combines modern painting with acrylic with old techniques and in this way,...

Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. Art Awards Winner 2019 - Art Fair Leipzig König combines modern painting with acr...

Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. Art Awards Winner 2019 - Art Fair Leipzig König combines modern painting with acry...

Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. König combines modern painting with acrylic with old techniques and in this way, h...

Beautifully Painted Porcelain tile signed “Wagner” lower right. The work rests in an ornate gilded frame with a rose-colored velvet liner. The work is in mint condition with no repai...

My work is concerned with the relationship of humanity and nature. I conceive of an expanded concept of “Nature” as embodying all existence, both the seen and unseen, socio-politica...

Acrylic on cardboard with a sculptural frame made in hand-shaped and painted clay.

Finely painted after C.A. Lenoir with a pensive brunette beauty seated at the edge of a fountain well; signed in front right corner "F. Hohle," plaque impressed monogram and scepter ...

Antique KPM Porcelain Plaque depicting one of the seven virtues Hope. She is shown in white robes, standing beneath a flowering cherry blo...

"Face 5" by Anne Siems, is a captivating figurative-narrative portrait painted on white clay panel. It features a beautiful female face and dark hair with braids. ANNE SIEMS (b. 19...

A BERLIN (K.P.M.) PORCELAIN PLAQUE: BALTHAZAR'S FEAST Mid-19th century The reverse with impressed sceptre and KPM factory marks and various incised numbers, in a giltwood frame. Fr...

Artist Commentary This painting was on display during the East Austin Studio tour. It is #2 of my "Vexation" painting series. The first painting was just vines, this (the second) one...

Questa ceramica dipinta, 33 x 24 cm senza la cornice, è ispirata dal "Riposo durante la fuga in Egitto" di Simone Cantarini detto il Pesarese, realizzato negli anni trenta del XVII s...

My work is concerned with the relationship of humanity and nature. I conceive of an expanded concept of “Nature” as embodying all existence, both the seen and unseen, socio-politica...

My work is concerned with the relationship of humanity and nature. I conceive of an expanded concept of “Nature” as embodying all existence, both the seen and unseen, socio-politica...

Medium: Acrylic on Cermaic Signature: Signed Lower Right

A fine Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur plaque of a young nude woman beside a carved marble fire pit. She plays with a flock of white and grey pigeons as smoke from the fire billows a...

An exquisite K.P.M. finely painted plaque, depicting a bejeweled beauty, seated on a curule chair, with impressed monogram and scepter mark and cyphers. Origin: Berlin Date: 19th c...

Finely painted German rectangular plaque depicting two beautiful women talking in the courtyard. One female sitting beside a flower plant, the other female standing. Maker: K.P.M. O...

Berlin (K.P.M.) Porcelain Plaque of a Woman Late 19th century. Circa 1896 A very fine and detailed oil painting on porcelain by the Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM) depicting a...

KPM Porcelain Plaque of 'Duchess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz' late 19 CENTURY Century After a painting by Gustav Richter (German 1823-1884); verso with an impressed scepter abo...

A delightful porcelain plaque of a middle eastern woman wearing a head scarf, gold medallion jewelry and an embroidered shirt with puffed sleeve...

My work is concerned with the relationship of humanity and nature. I conceive of an expanded concept of “Nature” as embodying all existence, both the seen and unseen, socio-politica...

Berlin Porcelain Allegorical Plaque of Admiration KPM, Late 19th CENTURY The three-quarter-length portrait depicting a brunette woman with blue eyes in light ecclesiastical robes supporting palms crossed over chest and looking up over right shoulder - in a landscape immersed in powder blue sea holly...

Medium: Oil on Porcelain Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left

"TRAVELLER" Abstract Mixed Media Painting 27.5" x 35.5" inch by Masha Iv Medium: Mixed Media. Canvas, acrylic, ceramic paint, paper. ABOUT: Masha Iv is a Russian artist, perform...

"WHEN YOU FOCUS ON THE GOOD" Painting 47" x 59" inch by Masha Iv ABOUT: Masha Iv is a Russian artist, performer and fashion designer who works in various ...

"Time to Dream" Abstract Mixed Media Painting D39" inch by Masha Iv Medium: Mixed Media. Acrylic on canvas ABOUT: Masha Iv is a Russian artist, performer...

"WATERFALL" Mixed Media Painting 31.5" x 47" inch by Masha Iv Medium: Mixed Media. Canvas, acrylic, ceramic paint, liquid bronzes ABOUT: Masha Iv is a Russian artist, performer and fashion designer who works in various techniques (painting, graphics, collage, installation, etc.). Masha Iv was born on May 23, 1986. In 2006, she graduated from the Carl Faberge College of Arts and Crafts (Moscow), in 2007 - from the school "Free Workshops" at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. In 2010, she received an additional education at the Russian Correspondence Institute of Textile and Light Industry. Since 2007, Masha Iv has actively participated in group exhibitions and realized a large number of art projects in Russia and abroad, including such major events as the Moscow Biennial of Young Art (2008) and the Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art (2009, 2011 and 2013). Cooperates with the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the State Darwin Museum. In 2013, Masha Iv creates a special project "Malevich Space" for the "Night of Museums" campaign at the State Tretyakov Gallery, and in the fall of 2014, she works in collaboration with the Tretyakov Gallery on an interactive installation "From Grief to Happiness" based on the works of artist Dmitry Prigov (shown as part of the "Night of Art" campaign). In 2015, Masha took part in large group exhibitions in Moscow: Workshop'15 "SUB OBSERVATIONEM" at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and the Bartenev Factory project within the exhibition "Say: I love you", also at MMOMA. In February 2017, the artist's first solo exhibition "Mountains: Colorful Music" was held at the A.N. Scriabin House Museum. Among Masha Iv's foreign projects and exhibitions are the performance "Cyclicity", shown at the Women in Paradise festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands (2015), the creation of costumes for the theatrical production "Iphis and Ianthe", shown in Paris, France (2015). In May 2017, Masha Iv's solo exhibition "Adventures in the Mountains" was held in Paris. Since 2012, Masha Iv is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia. Artists statement: The key themes of my works are the study of the natural landscape of our planet, drawing attention to environmental issues and the harmonious coexistence of man and nature. I work in mixed techniques, as I like to experiment with paints on different bases and observe how they interact with each other. Such experiments often lead me to surprising results. I most often find the phrases and captions integrated into my works in in-flight magazines, glossies, advertising campaigns and other print media. More precisely, the right phrases find me on their own at the right time when I'm working on a particular painting. Glimpsed phrases are often stored in our subconscious and sometimes serve as a trigger or set a vector of movement. Motivational phrases in paintings are like beacons that point in the right direction so as not to veer off course. Education 1993-2003 Art school 2003-2006 College of Art and Crafts of the Carl Faberge 2006-2010 Russian Correspondence Institute of Textile and Light Industry 2007 "Free Workshops" at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art Group Exhibitions 2023 «Gift under the tree» «Zdes na Taganke». Moscow. Russia 2022 «Starfall» Gallery «Zdes na Taganke». Moscow. Russia 2021 « House inside out» Rakov Gallery. Saint Petersburg. Russia 2021 «Observers of earthlings» Gallery «Zdes na Taganke». Moscow. Russia 2021 «Mask mode». Gallery «Our artists». Moscow. Russia 2017 «HaHaHa Moscow». Museum Art 4. Moscow. Russia 2017 «START in Art».Gallery K-35. Moscow. Russia 2016 «Legs in water, head's in the clouds» Gallery «Zdes na Taganke».Moscow. 2015 Project « Bartenev's factory» during the exhibition « Say: I love you» Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow, Russia 2015 Workshop’15«SUB OBSERVATIONEM».Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow, 2014 Project «Zu-Zu». State Darwin Museum. 2013 5 Moscow Biennale of contemporary art. Special project “ Book-Art- Botany” 2012 «Original fake...

"PEACE & LOVE" Mixed Media Painting 42.5" x 76" inch by Masha Iv Medium: Mixed Media. Canvas, acrylic, ceramic paint, liquid bronzes ABOUT: Masha Iv is a...

"JUST RELAXING NOW" Mixed Media Painting 79" x 39" inch by Masha Iv Medium: Mixed Media. Canvas, acrylic, ceramic paint, liquid bronzes ABOUT: Masha Iv i...

"FEEL THE LOVE" Painting 37" x 53" inch by Masha Iv ABOUT: Masha Iv is a Russian artist, performer and fashion designer who works in various techniqu...

A very rare technique used by the Artist, for one of his closest friends, the scholar Lamberto Vitali. With the ancient frame of 19th Century. Ref. Ca...

Artist Statement: With this sculpture I represented how every day man lives trying to outdo himself, almost in competition with himself and with others, in some cases feeling omnipot...

KPM Porcelain After Angelo Asti (French, 1847-1903) "Épanouissement" c. 1900 With Original Gold Gilded Frame Image Size: approx. 6 x 4 inches Framed Size: approx. 9 x 6 inches Eve...

KPM Porcelain "Queen Louise" c. late 19th century Original Hand-Painted Porcelain Signed "R. Dittrich" Since 250 years, the royal sceptre brand stands fo...

Marguerite Hand Painted Porcelain w/crown stamp #107 Signed "Wagner" Original Gilded Florentine Frame approx 6 x 4 inches /approx 14 x 8 inches framed Since 250 years, the royal sc...

Sevres 19th C. Original Hand Painted Porcelain Signed "G Poitevin" approx 9 x 5 inches/15 x 12 framed The vast and diverse production of the Sèvres factory in the nineteenth century resists easy characterization, and its history during this period reflects many of the changes affecting French society in the years between 1800 and 1900. Among the remarkable accomplishments of the factory was the ability to stay continuously in the forefront of European ceramic production despite the myriad changes in technology, taste, and patronage that occurred during this tumultuous century. The factory, which had been founded in the town of Vincennes in 1740 and then reestablished in larger quarters at Sèvres in 1756, became the preeminent porcelain manufacturer in Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century. Louis XV had been an early investor in the fledgling ceramic enterprise and became its sole owner in 1759. However, due to the upheavals of the French Revolution, its financial position at the beginning of the nineteenth century was extremely precarious. No longer a royal enterprise, the factory also had lost much of its clientele, and its funding reflected the ruinous state of the French economy. However, the appointment in 1800 of Alexandre Brongniart (1770–1847) as the administrator of the factory marked a profound shift in its fortunes. Trained as both an engineer and a scientist, Brongniart was both brilliant and immensely capable, and he brought all of his prodigious talents to the running of the troubled porcelain factory. He directed the Sèvres factory as administrator until his death in 1847, and during those five decades influenced every aspect of its organization and production. Much of the factory’s old, undecorated stock was immediately sold off, and new forms—largely in the fashionable, more severe Neoclassical style—were designed to replace out-of-date models. The composition for hard-paste porcelain was improved, and the production of soft paste, for which the factory had been famous in the previous century, was abandoned in 1804. New enamels colors were devised, and Brongniart oversaw the development of a new type of kiln that was both more efficient and cost-effective. Much of the factory’s output during Brongniart’s first decade reflected the prevailing Empire taste, which favored extensive gilding, rich border designs, and elaborate figural scenes (56.29.1–.8). Backgrounds simulating marble or a variety of hardstones were employed with greater frequency (1987.224); the new range of enamel colors developed under Brongniart made it easier to achieve these imitation surfaces, and it is thought that his interest in mineralogy provided the impetus for this type of decoration. For objects produced in sets, such as dinner, tea, and coffee services, and even garnitures of vases, Brongniart preferred decorative schemes that linked the objects in terms of subject matter as well as stylistically. Dinner services were given coherence by the use of an overall theme, in addition to shared border patterns and ground colors. One of the best examples of this can be found in the “Service des Départements,” which was conceived by Brongniart in 1824 (2002.57). Each of the plates in the service was decorated with a famous topographical view of the département (administrative unit) of France that it represented, and its border was painted with small cameo portraits of figures from the region, as well as symbols of the major arts, industries, and products of the area. This same type of thematic unity is found on a coffee service produced in 1836 (1986.281.1ab–4). All of the pieces of the service are decorated with scenes depicting the cultivation of cacao, from which chocolate is made, or various stages in the preparation of chocolate as a beverage. The compositions were conceived and executed by Jean Charles Develly, a painter at Sèvres who was responsible for many of the most ambitious dinner services produced at the factory during Brongniart’s tenure. The range of objects produced in the first half of the nineteenth century was enormous, as were the types of decoration that they employed. A recent exhibition catalogue devoted to Brongniart’s years at Sèvres indicates that ninety-two new designs for vases were introduced, as were eighty-nine different cup models, and the types of objects produced by the factory included every sort of form required by a dinner or dessert service, coffee and tea wares, decorative objects such as vases, and functional objects such as water jugs, basins, and toiletry articles. A new form rarely replaced an older one; the range of production simply increased. The same was true with types of decoration, as the factory was working in a wide variety of styles at any given time. From the earliest years of the Sèvres factory, its painters had copied not only contemporary compositions but also prints and paintings from earlier periods. However, under Brongniart, the factory sought to copy famous paintings with the specific intention of recording the “true” appearance of works increasingly perceived to be fragile. Works by a wide variety of artists were copied, but those by Raphael were especially popular. Raphael’s stature is reflected in a vase of 1834 in which a cameo-style portrait of the artist decorates the primary reserve, while on the back an artist’s palette is encircled by the names Titian, Poussin, and Rubens (1978.373). Just as works by earlier artists were copied, so too were decorative techniques of previous centuries. The interlace patterns of so-called Saint-Porchaire ceramic ware of the sixteenth century served as the inspiration for the decoration on a cup of 1837 (2003.153). The form of the cup itself derives from Renaissance silver forms made in Italy and France. However, the palette of vibrant reds, greens, blues, and yellows contrasts markedly with the muted browns and off whites of Saint-Porchaire wares and reflects the reinterpretation of historical styles that was characteristic of so much of nineteenth-century decorative arts. Interest in the Gothic style emerged early in Brongniart’s tenure at Sèvres and remained popular for much of the nineteenth century. Strict adherence to Gothic motifs was rarely observed, however, and the Gothic style was more evoked than faithfully copied. This tendency is reflected in a pair of vases (1992.23.1) for which the model was designated vase gothique Fragonard (named after the vase’s designer, Alexandre Evariste Fragonard [1780–1850]. The Gothic elements lie more in the painted decoration than in the form itself, and the style of the painting reflects a Renaissance technique rather than a medieval one. The palette of grays and whites on a blue ground instantly recalls the enamel-on-copper wares produced in Limoges, France, in the sixteenth century, and its use on these vases indicates the willingness to freely mix artistic styles and techniques of different periods in order to achieve new aesthetic effects. The eclecticism and historicism that characterized so much of the production during Brongniart’s tenure continued after his death in 1847. The factory’s output reflected an ongoing desire for technical innovation as well as a wide embrace of diverse decorative styles that were employed simultaneously. A tea and coffee service of 1855–61 (69.193.1–.11) embodies the selective borrowing of forms and motifs that is found so frequently in Sèvres production of the middle decades of the nineteenth century. The shapes used for the different components of the service evoke both China and the Near East, an obvious allusion to the origins of the two beverages. The openwork decoration refers directly to Chinese ceramics made in this technique, and the decoration employs a variety of Chinese emblems. However, the palette of pink and gold, entirely European in character, serves to neutralize the Asian aspects of the service. Perhaps the only thread that can be said to run through much Sèvres production of the nineteenth century is the proclivity to borrow freely from various historical styles and then to either reinterpret these styles or combine them in unprecedented ways. A standing cup of 1879 (1990.238a,b) draws upon silver cups of the Renaissance for its form, but in this instance the size of the porcelain cup dwarfs any of its metal prototypes. Its style of decoration derives from Limoges painted enamels of the sixteenth century, but the prominent use of gilding throughout reflects its wholly nineteenth-century character. This cup was presented by the French government to one of the first-prize winners at the 1878 Exposition Universelle. It was with the advent of the Art Nouveau style at the very end of the nineteenth century that historicism lost its grip at Sèvres, and indeed throughout the decorative arts, and forms inspired by nature and often characterized by asymmetry become dominant. This reliance upon natural forms is fully evident in a coffee service of 1900–1904 (1988.287.1a,b). The designer, Léon Kann...