Tazza and cover

Physical description

Tazza and cover, porcelain with pâte sur pâte decoration

Place of Origin

Paris, France (made)

Date

ca. 1864 (made)

Artist/maker

Rousseau, François-Eugène, born 1827 - died 1891 (retailer)
Solon, Louis Marc Emmanuel, born 1835 - died 1913 (maker)

Materials and Techniques

Porcelain with pâte sur pâte decoration

Descriptive line

Tazza and cover, porcelain with pâte sur pâte decoration, by Marc Louis Emmanuel Solon, Paris, ca. 1864

Labels and date

TAZZA AND COVER

Francois Eugène Rousseau

(1827-1891)

Retailer
Marc Louis Emmanuel Solon

(1835-1913)

Maker

Paris: about 1864

Porcelain with

pâte-sur-pâte decoration

759 & a-1864

Rousseau, an interesting designer and entrepreneurial commissioner, retailed ceramic and glass products. M. Solon trained as an illustrator in Paris and then joined the Sevres factory where he learned the pdte-sur-pdte technique of applying layers of slip to build up decoration, a technique effective in rendering diaphanous drapery and foliage. In 1870 the Franco- Prussian War drove him to England. He settled at Minton's, where he introduced the technique while maintaining a profitable mystique about it.
Given by F. E. Rousseau

Categories

Ceramics

Collection code

CER