Lot n° 55
Estimation :
4000 - 6000
EUR
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: 25 600EUR
CREIL MONTEREAU - Lot 55
CREIL MONTEREAU
Part of table service named Rousseau in fine earthenware of the manufacture of Lebeuf and Milliet, the model created in 1866 by Eugène Rousseau and Félix Bracquemond, with polychrome decoration in the Japanese style of plants, herbs, insects, birds, fish, molluscs and shellfish, the edges outlined with blue combed, consisting of 229 pieces :
118 dinner plates, D.: 24 cm
17 soup plates, D. : 24 cm
38 dessert plates, D. : 19,5 cm
21 bread plates, D. : 15,5 cm
2 round dishes, D.: 30 cm and 28 cm
2 round dishes, D. : 32 cm
2 oval dishes, L. : 37 cm
4 oval shallow dishes, L.: 45 cm and 43 cm
1 egg cup
4 lobed tripod bowls
1 vegetable dish, D.: 32 cm
11 trays on foot
2 compotes on foot
8 bowls on foot
1 oval bowl and 1 cover
1 large oval covered bowl
1 round terrine and 1 cover
1 large salad bowl
1 hollow bowl
3 ramekins, L.: 20 cm
5 cups and saucers
2 saucers
3 cups
1 covered jam dish with adjoining tray
2 milk jugs
3 sugar bowls
Various marks: Creil LM and Co. Montereau model Rousseau in Paris,
Leveillé / Rousseau / Paris, B & Cie / Creil Montereau / Rousseau model in Paris, Maisons Toy & Leveillé Réunies / 10 rue de la Paix / Paris, Toy / 10 rue de la Paix / Paris
End of the 19th century.
Chips and cracks.
Attached:
7 ear cups, 3 covered cream pots, 8 creamer lids, 7 ear cups
Bibliography:
- General catalog of the Universal Exhibition of 1867 in Paris, Paris, 1867.
- J.P. Bouillon, C. Shimizu, P. Thiebaut, Art, industry and Japonism: the Rousseau service, exhibition catalog, Musée d'Orsay, 1988.
- L. d'Albis, Les débuts du japonisme céramique en France de Bracquemond à Chapelet, Sèvres, n° 7, 1998, pp. 21-31,
- J.P. Bouillon, C. Meslin-Perrier, Félix Bracquemond et les arts décoratifs, du japonisme à l'art nouveau, exhibition catalog, 2005.
The French engraver and ceramist Félix Bracquemond (1833-1914) is a key figure in the artistic life of the second half of the 19th century. He was a close friend of Manet, Degas, Gauguin and Rodin, but also of Gautier and the Goncourt brothers. Above all an engraver, he was at the origin of the revival of the etching technique. He guided many artists in this way, from Corot to Milliet, without forgetting Degas and Pissarro, within the impressionist group of which he was an active member. His reputation also rests on his discovery and appreciation of Japanese prints, which were to contribute to the aesthetic renewal of modern art.
In 1856, Bracquemond discovered a collection of engravings by the Japanese artist Hokusai, typical of the pictorial genre known in Japan as "Kachô-ga", paintings of flowers and birds with the figuration of insects, crustaceans and fish. He was seduced by this theme which made him the initiator of the vogue for Japonism in France at the end of the 19th century.
Between 1860 and 1864, a collaboration with Theodore Deck allowed him to work on ceramics within the framework of decorative arts.
The history of the Rousseau service begins on March 16, 1866, with the first letter that the patron, François-Eugène Rousseau, sent to Bracquemond. Rousseau (1827-1890) was a "merchant-publisher" in the 1860s who employed free laborers. He had a project for an earthenware service and his ideas for decorations, and asked Bracquemond for technical advice for its realization. Bracquemond takes the matter in hand and it is the plates engraved by Bracquemond himself which are brought to the manufacture of Montereau where the service must be carried out. The Japanese subjects are borrowed from different albums of Hokusai, Hiroshige, or Katsushika Isai and arranged randomly, following a ternary composition, a large subject accompanied by two small ones.
This service will be presented for the first time at the World Fair of 1867 where it was very successful. The jury awarded a bronze medal to Eugène Rousseau and a gold medal to the manufacture Lebeuf and Milliet.
The service is then completed (tea cups, coffee cups, teapot, sugar pot) and the manufacture will be left to the manufacture of Creil and Montereau. Barluet, successor of Lebeuf reissued it in the early 1880s. In 1885, Eugène Rousseau gave up his business to Ernest-Baptiste Leveillé who continued to produce this service under his own brand.
On the occasion of the presentation of the Rousseau service at the International Exhibition in London, Mallarmé published in 1871 a strong praise renewed in 1872: "I had refused any allusion necessarily too brief to this admirable and unique service, decorated by Bracquemond with Japanese motifs borrowed from the farmyard and the fishing tank, the most beautiful recent crockery that it is given me to know. Each piece, the plates even, wants its special description", "I should particularly mention, as a translation of the high Japanese charm made by a very keen mind, the
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