Quimper, Desvres and French Faience Pottery Alan & Janet Mayfield

12^th May 2008

Welcome to this website which specialises in French Faience, including Quimper, Desvres and Malicorne, as well as European and British Art and Studio Pottery.

Our stock of French Faience currently includes: Quimper, Desvres, Malicorne, CA, Faience de l'Est and Faience Fine

We also stock items of Boulogne,Gien,Rubelles and Swiss Thoune.
Our European Art Pottery is mainly French and includes: Denbac, Greber, Pierrefonds, Metenier, Collinot, Les Yvelines and Rambervillers

Our English Art Pottery collection focuses on the smaller regional potteries, such as: Upchurch, Saunders,Isle of Wight,Torquay Ware, Brannam, Baron, Fishley Holland, Lemon & Son, Devonmoor and Dicker.

Other English Art Pottery includes Pilkingtons, Bretby, Poole
and Honiton.

Our English Studio Pottery includes the work of 20th.Century English potters such as: Dora Lunn, Reginald Wells, Marianne de Trey, Richard Batterham, Jim Malone, Mike Dodd, Phil Rogers, Seth Cardew, and the Leach Family. Other potteries represented in our collection are Lowerdown, Winchcombe, Muchelney, Yelland, Wenford Bridge, Dartington, Aldermaston, Abuja and Chelsea.

Please contact us for further information about these or other potteries not at present represented on our website. Whilst we are very happy to offer an opinion on identification of pottery items, we regret we do not give valuations.

STRUCTURE OF THIS WEBSITE

This website has 5 main sections as listed at the top left-hand corner of this first section, which can be accessed by clicking on the relevant section name.

This first HOME SECTION gives general information about us, our website and the way we operate. At the end of the section we include some NOTES ON POTTERY that deal with particlar types or aspects of Pottery. We also include a short mixed selection of ITEMS FOR SALE in the range £5GBP to £15GBP.

The Home Section is followed by four sections dealing with particular types of pottery. At present these are:

The second section, FRENCH FAIENCE, which deals with tin-glazed earthenware from French Potteries other than QUIMPER, MALICORNE AND DESVRES, which are the subject of the third section.

The fourth section deals with EUROPEAN ART & STUDIO POTTERY, and the fifth and final section covers BRITISH ART & STUDIO POTTERY.

Sections Two to Five each present 20 items from our large collection, which are refreshed regularly. If you do not see what you are looking for on the pages of this website please email us to check whether we do have such items in our stock.

ANTIQUES & COLLECTORS FAIRS

We stall regularly (except in January) at the Ardingly Antiques & Collectors Fair on the Sussex County Showground, and occasionally at other Antiques Fairs mainly in the South of England. Our programme of Fairs will be regularly updated on this website.

On 15/16 April 2008 we exhibited at Ardingly on Stand JH 16 in the Jubilee Hall, but will not be exhibiting at the July Ardingly.

Instead on 19 & 20 July we shall be exhibiting once again (after a long absence) at the DMG Antiques Fair on the County Showground at Detling in Kent, and will be in the Kent Pavilion on Stand K067.

Do visit our stand if you are able to come to the Detling Fair in July.

We shall continue to sell from our website, which will be regularly updated.

DO COME AND VISIT US AT ONE OF OUR FAIRS THIS YEAR !

PRICES, PAYMENT & POSTAGE

PRICES

In the catalogue that follows, the prices that have been quoted are our 'best' or 'trade' prices in GB Pounds. We are not willing to sell below these prices, so please do not make lower offers. In the case of multiple purchases, however, we are always willing to give a small discount.

PAYMENT

For International buyers we accept payment in GB Pounds by Paypal (but not by credit card) at no additional cost.

We also accept International Money Orders in Sterling, Sterling cheques and Cash in Euros, which must be sent by recorded delivery.

It is regretted that non-sterling cheques can not be accepted, because of excessive bank charges.

For UK buyers payment can be either by UK cheque or by Paypal.

POSTAGE

All items will be sent securely packed and insulated, where necessary double-boxed; international items by International Signed For First Class Air Mail unless otherwise requested. Shipping charges will be supplied on request.

WEBSITE IMAGES

The following pages show a small sample of our extensive stock.
CLICK on the IMAGES to obtain an enlarged view of each item.
These can be further enlarged by using the + button.

Try this on the pictures of an 18thC. Nevers Cornucopia Plate (S138) above, an impressive large Torquay Pottery Co. Toby Jug (P339) below, and on our Ardingly Stall displays pictured earlier on these Home pages.

EBAY SALES

We regularly have items for sale on eBay, and have recently sold some interesting pieces of British Studio Pottery by on-line auction. We shall be putting some more items on eBay in May, and you will be able to click on the icon below to view these in due course.

NOTES ON POTTERY: Rubelles French Faience 1838-57
A Rubelles French Faience Plate, with basket weave border, c.1850. Ref.R074

The Rubelles faiencerie, sited at Rubelles in the department of Seine et Marne was established by Baron A. du Tremblay (ADT) in 1838, in collaboration with Baron Charles du Bourgoing, and production continued there until 1857.

They developed the original 'emaux ombrants' process: on a 'faience fine' body, stamped with an intaglio design, various coloured glazes were flooded, with the result that while the cavities in the design appear as shadows, the parts in high relief are emphasized. The complexity and definition of the moulds was crucial in this process, and imitators found difficulty in replicating the relative depths of different parts of the design.

Items produced, during the bare 20-year lifetime of the faiencerie, included all manner of tablewares, vases, boxes, tobacco sets and tiles. Colours varied from brown maroon through green, blue to orange-brown and yellow. The 'intaglio' decoration, usually central on the object, was derived from drawings of historical themes, marine and landscapes, and the most usually found fruit subjects.

The firm had significant success in France and at the 1851 Great Exhibition in London where the unique production 'remarkable for cheapness, for novel and agreeable effect...'was praised. Unfortunately, financial success did not follow and the faiencerie closed in 1857. Moulds were sold, chiefly to Choisy (Hautin and Boulenger) in France and to Wedgwood in England.

Choisy Marine Subject Plate Ref.Q147

Later, in 1872, Wedgwood purchased more moulds, and additionally, the recipes for 'shading enamels' together with the original patent.

The example pictured below is from the Wedgwood production, dating from c1883.

Sources for more information about Rubelles:

La Faience de Rubelles: A de Ravel d'Escaplon, Lys Editions, 2003
Faiences Fines Francaises: D Guilleme Brulon, Editions Massin
Majolica: V Bergesen, Barrie and Jenkins, 1989

ITEMS £5 TO £15

In addition to the items displayed in the following sections of the website, we offer here a few pieces in the price range £5GBP to £15GBP.

For more information about these pieces, including charges for postage and packing, please contact us by telephone on 01732 353577 or by email: alan@mayfieldpot.freeserve.co.uk

French Faience Jug
An unmarked small jug with 'a la touche' decoration. There is some small restoration to the rim, but it is otherwise in good condition.
Size: Height 10cm., overall width 7.5cm
Ref: J343 ~ Price £8GBP

Limoges Deco Dish
A 1930's dish marked 'Haviland France' and with the Liverpool retailers' details stamped in red on the base. It is in excellent condition.
Size: Diam. 26cm
Ref J149 ~ Price £5GBP

'Decor Moustiers' Chamberstick
A small faience chamberstick, with marks 'Martres Tolosane' and 'Decor Moustiers' on the base. Date c1950 and in excellent condition.
Size: Ht. 7cm., diam. 13.5cm
Ref: K190 ~ Price £5GBP

HB Quimper Modern Movement Pitcher
A classic ovoid shape, dating from the 1930s. It has male and female portraits and is marked 'HB Quimper 206 1'. The condition is good, notwithstanding a fine internal hairline of 13.5 cm., which cannot be seen externally.
Size: Ht. 22cm
Ref: K285 ~ Price £15GBP

Keraluc Quimper Jug
A jug with geometric design, impressed 'Keraluc Quimper', with painted numbers. Dating from c1950, it is in very good condition, with a small hairline at the base of the handle.
Size: Ht 16cm., max diam 8cm.
Ref:J427 ~ Price £8GBP

Quimper Style Breton Subject Plate
A plate in the croisillee style of the HB faiencerie in Quimper, but dating from c1950, and by an unknown maker. It is marked 'quimper' in black on the base. One fleabite on the rim, but with no other fault.
Size: diam. 25.5cm
Ref: H273x ~ Price £15GBP

Quimper Style Bretonne Subject Plate
A plate in the croisillee style of the HB faiencerie in Quimper, with a Bretonne as the centre feature. It dates from c1950 and is marked 'quimper' in black on the base. By an unknown maker and in excellent undamaged condition.
Size: Diam.25.5cm
Ref: H273y ~ Price £15GBP

Honiton Geometric Design Vase
A vase with a banded design, stamped 'Collard, Honiton, England', with '6' painted in black on the base. Dating from 1935-47, it is in very good condition, with one small firing fault on the foot rim.
Size: Max. diam 10cm., height 9cm.
Ref: L065 ~ Price £5GBP

Winchcombe Oatmeal Glaze Bowl
A small handled stoneware bowl from the Winchcombe pottery, with the earlier pottery mark impressed on the base. This bowl is in excellent condition and dates most probably from the 1960's.
Size: Diam. 10cm., height 7cm.
Ref: L102 ~ Price £7GBP

Raymond Everett Cheese Dish
A substantial stoneware cheese dish in cream and grey with a painted abstract decoration. It has the potter's mark impressed on the base and dates from the period 1963-83. It is in excellent condition.
Size: base diam. 20cm; lid diam. 16cm., height 9cm.
Ref: M054 ~ £15GBP