Antique Print of Faience Porcelain Cupid on Sauciere. Delaroque c1870

$110.00

Faience Porcelain Sauciere (sauceboat with cupid) – Delaroque antique print.

Antique Print of a beautiful Faience sauce boat, softly coloured in red, white and blue, from a series on the finest Faience porcelain. This original lithograph was printed in colour by Ris-Paquot in Amiens, for "Histoire des Faiences de Rouen", published in Paris circa 1870 by Eugene Delaroque.

Faience porcelain was the first "soft" porcelain, created in Europe early in the 18th century by Louis Poterat, sieur de Saint-Etienne, a potter of Rouen in France. This beautiful soft coloured, warm milky white translucent earthenware, is traditionally decorated by foliated patterns and floral designs of typical French style, or ornamented by coloured designs in imitation of the old Chinese and Japanese porcelain.

Image size: approx. 275 x 195mm (11 x 7.75")