Mustard and blue solid-body wares, 1650–80, with Turkish-inspired birds and flowers.[1]Nevers dish in the istoriato style, with the Triumph of Julius Caesar, very loosely after Mantegna, 1600–1630
The city of Nevers, Nièvre, now in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central France, was a centre for manufacturing faience, or tin-glazed earthenware pottery, between around 1580 and the early 19th century. Production of Nevers faience then gradually died down to a single factory, before a revival in the 1880s. In 2017, there were still two potteries making it in the city, after a third had closed.[2] However the quality and prestige of the wares has gradually declined, from a fashionable luxury product for the court, to a traditional regional speciality using styles derived from the past.
17th-century plate with genteel party in a European-style landscape. The border has birds, flowers and a rabbit, all at the same size.[3]
Nevers was one of the centres where the istoriato style of Italian maiolica was transplanted in the 16th century, and flourished for rather longer than in Italy itself. In the 17th century, Nevers became a pioneer in imitating Asian ceramic styles in Europe, within some decades, followed by all producers of fine wares. The second half of the 17th century was Nevers' finest period, with several styles being made at the same time, including a grandiose Italianate Court style.[4]
By the time of the French Revolution, Nevers wares had ceased to be fashionable and expensive,[5] but the relatively crudely painted faiences patriotiques wares commenting on political events have great interest and charm.[6] A late 19th-century revival concentrated on high-quality revivalist wares recreating past glories.
^McNab, 18–20; Ewer page at Metropolitan Museum
^"Désormais, Nevers ne compte plus que deux faïenceries", Lara Payet, 1 April 2017, Le Journal du Centre (in French); "les faienciers actuels", faiencedenevers.fr – still the case in 2020
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were faience or tin-glazed earthenware, and fine faience continued to be made until around 1800 in various countries, especially France, with Nevers faience...
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of Roman Egypt. It includes paintings, sculptures, drawings on papyrus, faience, jewelry, ivories, architecture, and other art media. It was a conservative...
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agricultural production techniques, the first known planked boats, Egyptian faience and glass technology, new forms of literature, and the earliest known peace...
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valuable collection of miniatures and decorative art: textiles, porcelain, faience, glass, gold objects, military, etc. It burned down on September 25, 1939...
(the eyes), obsidian (the pupils), carnelian, amazonite, turquoise, and faience. When it was discovered in 1925, the 2.5 kg (5.5 lb) narrow gold beard...
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his buildings, most famously at the Natural History Museum. He also used faience, once its mass production was possible, on the interiors of his buildings...
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longer required for use, perhaps after a fire. The figurines are made of faience, a crushed quartz-paste material which after firing gives a true vitreous...
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