Antique Painted French Barbotine Vase by Theodore Lefront, circa 1880

This large hand painted antique vase was created in France circa 1865, made of Majolica, the colorful vase depicts a hand painted scene with ...

French Majolica pair of vases with painted flowers signed Pointu, circa 1880.

This is an antique decorative vase. A French, cloisonné baluster urn, dating to the Victorian period of the late 19th century, circa 1880. P...

This beautiful, unique pair of antique Majolica vases was crafted in France, circa 1880. The tall and thin colorful ceramic planters feature t...

Place this large and unique pair of antique Majolica vases on a console or shelf. Crafted in France, circa 1880, the colorful ceramic planters...

This colorful antique majolica urn was sculpted in Montigny sur Loing, France, circa 1880. Tall and round in shape, the ceramic vessel features a tall, elegant form with a flared rim...

Decorate a shelf of a console with this elegant colorful majolica vase. Sculpted in Vallauris, France, circa 1890, and signed by the artist Pierre Perret, the ceramic vessel has an u...

French Majolica Palissy monkey vase, circa 1880. Dressed monkey with a bottle sitting on a basket.

Beautifully crafted flower pot, France, 1880. With a curved and gilded edging on the top. The front shows a hand-painted country house with a pond in which two swans are swimming. Fl...

This antique majolica planter was sculpted in Montigny sur Loing, France, circa 1860. Tall and oval in shape, the ceramic jardinière stands on a flat rectangular base; it features colorful hand painted floral motifs in high relief on a brown background. The elegant barbotine vase is in excellent condition with rich patinated colors in the pale green, yellow, beige and pink palette. 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...