Editorial Reviews

J.VIEILLARD & Cie: History of the faience in Bordeaux, by J. du Pasquier, Ed. Mollat, 8 inches x 10-½ inches ( 21 cm x 27 cm ), softcover book with 182 full color pages

This softcover book of 182 full color pages, with 200 pictures recounts the history of the faience and earthenware in Bordeaux, the Jules Vieillard factory in Bordeaux, that produced faience as well as Longwy type enamels from 1823 to 1895.
Fine earthenware had a relatively short duration in Bordeaux (1829 - 1895) but, particularly brilliant, it knew a hatmonious development and without rupture starting from the brilliant intervention of Boudon de Saint-Amans, enamored of English ceramic production. The presence of Jules Vieillard succeeding David Johnston, mayor of the city and enlightened bourgeois, is decisive in the industrial success of the Bataclan factory but also in the artistic quality of a production which was unanimously celebrated at the time of the Universal Exhibitions and developed in its last period an exceptional Orientalism whose richness has not been finished.

This book includes the marks and signatures used by the Jules Vieillard factory.

Contents:

• Fine earthenware
• Pierre Honoré Boudon de Saint-Amans
• The manufacture of Lahens and Rateau
• The manufacture of David Johnston
• The arrival of Jules Vieillard
• Evolution of the manufacture
• Enamels in relief
• Triumph of the manufacture of Bacalan
• Amédée de Caranza and the Orientalism in Bordeaux
• Louis and Alain Dalpayrat
• The end of the fine earthenware in Bordeaux
• Marks and signatures

The French texts are written by Jacqueline du Pasquier.