Vase 1, Front and Back                         Vase 2, Front and Back
 


 

These two small octagonal vases come very close to being a true pair.  Both are signed HR Quimper, date around 1910, and show a man and a woman on opposite sides. The intensity of the blue paint varies a bit between the two and the signatures are in different places.

The color of the side rosettes does differ and one vase has red dots above the figures instead of clouds. But Quimper is always full of surprises and these two pieces, which have been around for at least 100 years, seem happy to be together.

The vases are 3½" high and are in excellent condition. A tiny glaze chip on the bottom rim of the vase with the green rosettes is not visible in the photo.

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Nevers, a town on the Loire River in central France, has been the home of faienceries since the early 1600s. Over the years they produced superb pieces that are now found in museums. In the mid-1800s they began to make plates that would appeal to the growing middle class. This plate dates between 1840 and 1860.

Decorated in the “Manoir” (manor house) style, the plate has typical Nevers motifs, with birds, a fence, and trees surrounding a modest house and tower. The plate is 8½" wide. The sloping sides are 1¾" deep, decorated with a wide curving border.

The plate is in excellent condition. All the various color changes and glaze irregularities are original to the day it was fired. Nevers plates of this period were not signed. Age and origin of this one have been verified by a faience specialist in France.

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