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Faience
Overall: 28.9 x 13.7 x 12.7 cm (11 3/8 x 5 3/8 x 5 in.)
The Norweb Collection 1966.225
Location
not on view
Description
For several decades in the middle of the 18th century the Hannong family were proprietors of one of the best and most influential French faience factories at Strasbourg. Here German and French ceramic styles and techniques met and were fused. These figures were copied from a pair executed in Chantilly porcelain which in turn relied on a Meissen prototype.
Strasbourg Factory
The source of much fine 18th century faience and of a style of decoration in enamel colors which was widely imitated in France, Germany, Scandinavia and Italy. The faience factory was founded in 1721.