19th Century French Hand Painted Tole Grape Basket from Bordeaux

Place this sculptural, antique jardinière on a shelf or on a kitchen counter for a pop of color. Crafted in Montigny-sur-Loing, France circa 1860, the colorful basket has a central handle and features a double vase decorated with floral and leaf motifs in high relief. The elegant, artistic planter with flowers is in excellent condition and has rich, pigmented colors in a blue, black, green and pink palette. Different markings on the bottom. Impressionist ceramics term generally applies to "paint the slip" or "batch gouache". At the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, the towns of Montigny-sur-Loing and Marlotte are many artists living places like Jean-Baptiste Corot, Eugène Thirion (1839-1910), Adrien Schulz (1851-1931), Numa Gillet (1868-1940) and Lucien Cahen-Michel (1888-1980), all attracted by the quality of the landscape and the light. When Eugene Schopin founded in 1872 a ceramics factory, he worked with the painters to create a range of designs inspired by Impressionism and decorated according to new public demands. Several ceramic factories will develop around this Impressionist movement. The most famous, such as Georges Delvaux (1834-1909), Albert Boué (1862-1918) and Charles Alphonse Petit (1862-1927), will produce until 1922. Other manufacturers, such as Theodore Lefront...

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Circa 1860 grand French copper & brass grape hod. Truly superb quality! Dark, richly patinated copper. Central double entwined cornucopia repousse motif flanked by brass bands with s...

A charming, one of a kind, vintage metal French grape hod (harvesting bucket) with hand painted floral tole paint decoration in gorgeous shades of blue, green, ochre and red. Buckles...

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A beautifully weathered 19th-century French grape harvesting basket, handwoven from natural willow in a classic barrel form. Once used in the vineyards o...