Limoges JPL (Pouyat) Hand Painted Pitcher Large Floral Mums Pitcher Ultra Fine

  

Antique JP Jean Pouyat Limoges France Large Floral Mums Pitcher Yellow, Gold, Green & Gray Mums Ewer. JPL fine materials and hand painted work make a majority of the pieces produced a piece of Art. This is truly a nice piece to display and marvel at the detail hand painted craftsmanship and artistry. It is in very good condition for a Limoges antique. There are some rough spots at the gold trip and a minor scuff in the gold gild - see pic.

As it has it all kinds of measurement, it is about 9" x 5" overall. Weighs around 1.3 pounds. A doctor's wife found a deposit of white earth near the village of St. Yrieix and it turned out to be kaolin, which along with feldspar are the ingredients for making fine, Chinese-style hard-paste porcelain. A porcelain-making industry around Limoges became important in the 19th century.

Eventually, many firms made porcelain in Limoges, and one of them was the company belonging to Jean Pouyat, who signed pieces made in his factory with'J. The Pouyat family had a tin-glazed-earthenware factory in St. Yrieix when the kaolin was discovered and Jean Pouyat's grandfather owned a kaolin mine there. Jean's father, Francois, ran a porcelain factory in Paris from the early 1800s to around 1840, and Jean established his own porcelain factory in Limoges in 1842.

Jean Pouyat died just a few years later, in 1849, and the business passed to his sons. In 1911, the Jean Pouyat Co.

Merged with William Guerin and Co. And, after the end of World War I, both companies became part of Bawo and Dotter. The Jean Pouyat marks were used until 1932, when Bawo and Dotter went out of business.