A Paris porcelain lanternA Paris porcelain lantern of the second half of the 19th century. The stem is divided into three parts, the white porcelain decorated with flowers alternates with elements in gilt bronze. The lower part consists in a stand, decorated with garlands of flowers, supporting four candlesticks shaped as the head of a bearded old man attached to the platform by acanthus leaves.Paris porcelain history began in the late 18th century: around the 1770s. The kaolin Limousin was commercialized, it resulted in the violation of the monopoly of the manufacture of porcelain that protected the royal manufactory of Sevres.The French Revolution has severely shaken the industry in Paris with its attacks against the wealthy aristocracy. It has however contributed of the proliferation of factories finally released of the monopoly of Sevres. Besides, most of these factories usually had a short life. They had to suffer of economic crisis resulting of the Napoleonic wars.Despite these difficulties, the maximum growth of Paris porcelain dates of the 1820s. Subsequently, their number continued to decline, the hope to make good money by making porcelain often was a disappointment. Hence the closure of factories or their move to the provinces were more and more frequent. Therefore, it is consistent to call Paris porcelain, hard porcelain, unmarked but dated by their style of the first part of the 19th century.
Circa :1850
Dim: W: 9,4 in - D: 9,4in - H: 19,7in.
Dim: L:24cm, P:24cm, H:50cm.
Bibliography: A. Faÿ Hallé, La porcelaine européenne au XIX° siècle, Paris, 1983, ed. office du livre
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