Paris, Revolutionary, Empire Period- Richly Decorated Porcelain Inkwell

Visible in Paris. Free hand delivery in the capital and its suburbs. Delivery for France: 15€, contact me for Europe and the rest of the world.

Inkwell
Painted hard porcelain enhanced with gilding
Dimensions : H. 7 ; D. 11 (cm.)
Paris, circa 1800

A very fine porcelain inkwell with gilt decoration of rhomboid friezes of navette medallions containing radiating palmettes and a frieze of arabesques on a dark nankin background. To be compared with a suite of cups that we are also offering for sale. 

Hard porcelain in Paris in the early 19th century 
Unlike earthenware factories, porcelain factories flourished under the Empire, particularly in Paris. The period 1800-1820 can be considered the golden age of porcelain in Paris. There were nineteen porcelain factories in Paris in 1800, but only seven had been founded under the Ancien Régime: Dihl et Guérard, Houzel, Lemaire et Josse, Pouyat et Russinger, Schoelcher, Despréz et Nast, etc. In contrast to the last twenty years of the 18th century, which saw a shift from rocaille to antique simplicity, the first thirty years of the 19th century saw the opposite, a shift from antique sobriety to rococo. 

Condition report: wear to the gilding