French Paris Wash Pitcher & Basin Bowl White Morning Glories c 1880

Porcelain : Antique : French

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This is a French hard paste porcelain wash set, most likely produced and decorated from one of the porcelain companies around Paris and also similar in style to the production and decoration of the factories and studios around Limoges. The age is 19th century, circa 1880.

The set has two pieces. There is a wash pitcher that is about 12 ¼” high and about 8” wide at the belly. There is a wash bowl or basin that is about 13 3/8” wide and about 4” high.

The glaze is white. Around the top is a band of green, with lines of gold on each side. In gold and red are two loops that look like chains to hang plants. Wrapped around the lower loops are hanging white morning glory vines, one on each side of the pitcher, and three on the interior of the bowl.

The stems are brown. The leaves are in shades of green and blue. The trumpet-like flowers are white, with dark yellow-brown middles and red pistils. There are a few buds in red or white. Some strokes of white enamel can be seen and felt in raised relief on some of the flowers and leaves.

The edges are trimmed in gold, with another gold line circling the bottom outside of the bowl. There is wear to the gold on the handle of the pitcher, due to age and use. There is also wear around the mouth of the pitcher.

The inside of the pitcher has a few glaze skips, with the longest one being near the top to the left of the handle. There are a few dark marks of discoloration in the glaze on the inside of the pitcher also. On the mouth of the pitcher is a pinpoint type of indentation that appears to have been glazed over at the factory. The inside of the pitcher shows some discoloration on the glaze, the type of discoloration caused from having been used as a vase for holding fresh flowers.

The pieces are unmarked as to the maker. You can view similar shapes in the two books by Regine de Plinval de Guillebon, “Faience et Porcelaine de Paris” and “Porcelain of Paris.”

There are no chips, cracks or crazing.

Item ID: RL-282