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LONGWY POTTERY

ANTECO
23 abr 2016
2 Min. de lectura

The town of Longwy is located in the northeast corner of France, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle region of Lorraine, close to the borders of Luxembourg and Belgium. The Longwy pottery was established towards the end of the 17th century in a Carmelite convent. The owners of the convent and pottery were the Huart family, and by 1865 had passed into the hands of Fernand and Hyppolyte d'Huart. They built new workshops and forsook the models, figures and reliefs that had previously been made in favour of earthenware decorated with enamel in the style of cloisonné. The enamelled faience technique was developed at Longwy in response to the popularity of cloisonne from Persia and Japan. In 1870, the Italian artist Amedee de Caranza was hired to create a pottery that resembled cloisonne and would appeal to the general taste for orientalism in France. At Longwy he developed and perfected a method of printing black lines on the surface of fired earthenware to create a thin, bas-relief wall around each design segment. The individual cells were hand-painted in the studio with enamels -sometimes using as many as 25 different colours- and then the piece was re-fired. Burnt sienna or India ink was rubbed into the surface of the piece to pick up fine glaze cracks or crazing. This style, which they called Emaux de Longwy, continued as their main output and the style by which Longwy wares are recognized. Production has continued since, interrupted only by the two World Wars, and while the styles have changed with the times the general appearance of the pieces has remained unmistakable.

ANTECO offers you a fine and delicate dessous de plat by Longwy from the early 20th century. The bottom of the dish is marked with a characteristic stamp of the manufacture. Available on TC: http://www.todocoleccion.net/antiguedades/dessous-plat-bajo-plato-longwy-principios-xx~x26930605.