Cachepot with Enameled Flowers

A small brass planter raised on three paw feet, with embossed decoration featuring ribbon-tied swags and a central fruit and foliate motif. The warm patina and elegant detailing give...

A faience ceramic flower frog, designed for arranging flowers with precision and elegance. The scalloped top features multiple openings for stems, while the open reservoir at the bac...

Brass planter with ornate repoussé foliate and scrollwork designs, set on three paw feet. Lion mask handles with rings flank each side, adding decorative appeal. Warm patina highligh...

A decorated tole bucket. Great for magazines or kindling.

"BLOOMING BEAUTIFULLY FROM HERE TO ETERNITY….." Gorham’s Fleurs des Siècles basket of flowers designed by Jane Hutcheson Gold gilt porcelain flower basket...

Marked M.s.L. et G.S. Planter in earthenware of Montigny-sur-Loing decorated with painted flowers (so-called "à la barbotine") inserted in a blanc and gilded bronze mount, attrib...

Large English Ceramic Jardiniere with Silk Flowers. Beautiful and colorful bouquet to brighten any room. The jardiniere is stamped on the bottom. Will post better photos soon. Cermic...

This elegant colorful hand painted Majolica planter was sculpted in Montigny sur Loing, France, circa 1860. The ceramic jardinière with root shape handles features high relief soft pink, blue and beige rose flowers with pale green leaves, and brown and grey background. The ceramic vase is in good condition commensurate with age and use (minor chips on few petals). Impressionist ceramics term generally applies to "paint the slip" or "batch gouache". At the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth 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...