Polychrome and Gilt Glazed Earthenware Ewer, 1890s

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Alfred renoleau (1854–1930) initially ran a hair salon for about ten years before abandoning this profession to pursue a career … Read more Alfred renoleau (1854–1930) initially ran a hair salon for about ten years before abandoning this profession to pursue a career as a ceramicist in 1889. After experimenting in mansle starting in 1880, followed by his first productions in roumazières in 1888, he founded the angoulême art pottery works in 1891.

he succeeded in creating pieces very similar to palissy's work, either in glazed earthenware or in tin-glazed earthenware, with the decoration applied to the glaze fired at high temperature. Some of his pieces are in the collections of the petit palais in paris and the metropolitan museum of art in new york.

the decoration of the piece, known as the marquise de sévigné, was produced by the angoulême pottery works for the chocolate factory of the same name, founded by a. Rouzaud in royat. It plays on a rigorous alternation of cartouches, friezes, and gilt lines against a cream background—a symmetrical structure, floral and cup motifs rendered in stylized flat planes, enhanced with gold. It is a neoclassical ornamental vocabulary—order, symmetry, references to antiquity through the cup—reinterpreted in the belle époque style, with a more vibrant palette and generous gilding that betray the piece's luxurious commercial purpose.

the base bears the handwritten enameled signature "renoleau / a," authenticating its production at the angoulême pottery works.

associated ceramicists and manufacturers: desvres pottery works, gien pottery works, hb henriot quimper pottery works (french polychrome glazed earthenware, decorations enhanced with gold); rené buthaud (charente potter). This piece has an attribution mark,
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