Manufacture of Jules VIEILLARD, Bordeaux, according to a decoration of Eugène MILLET.
Part of an earthenware dinner service of the model "aux Grands Oiseaux" comprising seventy pieces with polychrome enamelled decoration of birds, insects, plant and floral motifs and Japanese characters:
- Eighteen soup plates (tiny little firing defects, blue enamel slightly fused in places). Diameter : 25,5 cm
- Twenty-nine large plates (small cracks and one with cracks). Diameter : 25,5 cm
- Nineteen small plates (one chip, two chips and one cracked, small cracks and enamel slightly fused). Diameter : 23 cm
- Two tureens. Diameter : 23 cm
- A mustard pot (a small chip). Height. Height : 9 cm
- A large roasting dish (small cracks). Length : 48 cm Marks under the bottom imitating Japanese characters. Second half of the 19th century.
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Manufacture of Jules VIEILLARD, Bordeaux, after a decoration of Eugène MILLET.
Suite of the service including twenty-three pieces in less good condition:
- Twelve large plates (slightly browned, firing defects and small cracks). Diameter : 25,5 cm
- Four small plates (one with a chip under the base, small cracks slightly browned).
- An oblong dish (browned cracks). Length : 57 cm
- Two display stands (browned cracks and one cracked). Diameter : 25 cm
- Two circular dishes (brown cracks, two chips and a crack). Diameter : 30,5 cm
- An oval dish (one chip, browned). Length : 39,5 cm
- A ravier (entirely browned). Length : 24,5 cm
Marks under the bottom imitating Japanese characters. Second half of the 19th century.
Eugène Millet (1819-1879) was an architect and decorator who was a student of Viollet-le-Duc. He created for the Manufacture Vieillard in Bordeaux the decoration of this service in a Japanese style inspired by Hokusai translating the craze for Japan after the opening of the country. The earthenware of the Manufacture Vieillard is distinguished by the use of enamels in light relief and bright colors that are well found on this service.
Elements of the service and projects of decoration carried out by Millet
are kept at the Musée du Petit Palais in Paris and at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs de Design in Bordeaux.
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