Pair of Mid-Century French Hand-Painted Faience Planters and Bases from Nevers

$3,600

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Bring colors to any room with these elegant, antique faience planters with matching bases. Crafted in Nevers, France, circa 1940, and signed by Montagnon, each large, ceramic cache-pot stand on a tall circular base. Each round vessel features hand-painted medallions scenes in a traditional blue, yellow and white palette; the decor is further embellished with floral and leaf motifs throughout the vase and the base. The colorful ceramic planters are in excellent condition commensurate with age and use and adorns rich colors in the style of Delft. Drainage hole in the bottom for easy use. The faiencerie of Nevers is a ceramic factory based in Burgundy, France, The city of Nevers, Nièvre, now in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central France, was a center for manufacturing faience, or tin-glazed earthenware pottery, between around 1580 and the early 19th century. Production of Nevers faience then gradually died down to a single factory, before a revival in the 1880s. Gabriel Montagnon was the factory’s master potter between 1899 and 1937. 19″ Diameter 35.5″H. (planter and base)

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