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Garniture of a clock with turning dial rings and two vases

niderviller pottery (1735 –)

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!

Musée Nissim de Camondo (Paris, France)

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.