Discover Niderviller pottery (est. 1735), a renowned French manufacturer famed for its exquisite faïence & hard-paste porcelain. Known for vibrant pink hues, unique designs, and historical significance in European ceramics. Explore their legacy!
Discover the Musée Nissim de Camondo in Paris: a stunning tribute to 18th-century French decorative arts & a poignant family legacy tragically impacted by war. Explore opulent rooms filled with furniture, porcelain & tapestries.
Each piece in the set resembles a lidded urn and is decorated with a band featuring garlands of flowers in biscuit porcelain and medallions with grisaille figures of children or polychrome landscapes, on a lapis blue ground sprinkled with gold flowers. Each piece has a neck decorated with acanthus leaves, a gadrooned stem and a circular fluted foot. The clock is also decorated with two biscuit porcelain female mask heads. The clock movement is signed by Arnoud Père, a clockmaker working in Nancy. The piece bears the mark with two crowned C’s for the Comte de Custine, owner of the Niderviller factory from 1770 to 1793.
