GALLERY & BLOG
Welcome to the Gallery & Blog section, where I’ll regularly post pictures, share news and report any discoveries that come to light. I’ll certainly be grateful to hear from you and receive pictures or other news items of interest. Many thanks! – Charlotte Jacob-Hanson
Duvivier’s decoration on Loosdrecht Sherds
Between 1774 and 1784 porcelain was made at the Dutch manufactory founded by Rev. Joannes de Mol (1726–1782) and located in Oud-Loosdrecht, 30 km south of Amsterdam, close to the Vecht River. In the years 2000-2005 the Historical Society of Loosdrecht conducted excavation work at the site of the manufactory in order to bring its history “above water” for the first time. In the course of their work, the archaeologists discovered a vast amount of ceramic evidence – both in the ground as well as in the water nearby.
More Sceaux examples –
Metropolitan Museum, NYC
A Sceaux faience plate decorated by Fidelle Duvivier in petit feu colors with two figures in an autumnal landscape set in a medallion outlined with greenery and flowers emerging from a large fruit, the edge fretted and painted with peignés bleus (illustration 35 in my book).
Two Sceaux faience plates (F. Duvivier)
The above plates (numbers 36, 38 in my book) were published in 1903 in a book by M. L. Solon, A history and description of the old French faïence, with an account of the revival of faïence painting in France (London: Cassell & Co., Ltd.), facing p. 124. At the time the two plates were attributed to the factory of J. Gaspard Robert of Marseille, but in the meantime both have been re-attributed to Sceaux.
Birds of Fantasy by Gerverot
Here are some examples of bird painting by Louis Victor Gerverot (1747-1829), another French porcelain painter, who most likely knew Fidelle Duvivier while both were in the Netherlands, and who later collaborated with Duvivier in Staffordshire.