Louis XV style Paris porcelain soup tureen, circa 1900

Louis XV style soup tureen in Paris porcelain on a white background with decoration of cornflowers and gilt flowers and also gilt nets.
Mounted in chiseled and gilt bronze on a chantourne base, standing on four adorned legs. Wreath of flowey foliages forming handles.
The border of the souper tureen is decorated with openwork vegetal volutes.

French work realized circa 1900.

Dimensions : H 32 x W 45 x D 28 cm.

Reference : LS2657321

With the discovery of kaolin in Saint-Yrieix in 1768, the porcelain manufacture augmented in Paris with the creation of many manufactures of hard porcelain. They were put under the patronage of princely personalities as the Count of Provence for the Clignancourt manufacture or the queen Marie-Antoinette for the manufacture of the rue Thiroux and were put under the name “Porcelain of Paris”.
At the 18^th century, the manufacture of this porcelain was developed in three categories: table pieces, toilet objects and ornament items, in a stylistic evolution that temporally adapted to new tendencies of decorative arts.
The floral decor dominated the production of the porcelain of Paris, sometimes mixed with fruits and foliage swags. Then, more and more, the subjects were diversified with animals, characters, landscapes, chinoiseries… Coloured backgrounds were sometimes edged with a gilt frieze or were used to highlight a polychrome decor. At last, two other processes were widely used and had a great success: shades and gilt.
If the characteristically decor of the first third of the 19^th century was the gilt decor on a coloured background on the richer pieces, or fully gilt doubled (interior and exterior of the item), the mid and last century production was industrialized and particularly liked to copy ancient styles, often mixed between them.
If at the beginning of the 19^th century, manufactures of the porcelain of Paris were very flourishing, from 1820 their number decreased and many provincial manufactures depots were put under the general term “porcelain of Paris”. Indeed, the pieces, manufactured in province, were often decorated in Paris, permitting to save this name despite the increasing of the production.

Some confusion is possible; indeed it also exists an eponymous manufacture named Manufacture of the Porcelain of Paris founded in 1829 by Jean-Marx Clauss. It had a similar production with stylistic evolutions similar to the general production of this porcelain of Paris today yet exists, while its activity is now turned to porcelain watchmaking and jewellery.

Source :
R. de Plinval de Guillebon, Faïence et porcelaine de Paris. XVIIIe -XIXe, 1995, Editions Faton