Antique Art Nouveau French Pot, 1890

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Tobacco jar or blue and green pencil jar in slip signed Frie Onnaing, circa 1890. The two handles are elephant … Read more Tobacco jar or blue and green pencil jar in slip signed Frie Onnaing, circa 1890. The two handles are elephant heads, decorated with corn. The slip gives the pot a nice shiny effect. Brilliant colors.
Style: Majolica Pottery

Materials and techniques: Barbotine
Place of origin: France
Period: 1890-1899

number 179 corresponds to the elephant model.

The Onnaing factory, in the North of France, focuses its production on molded and decorated earthenware objects, commonly called slips, which have earned it its notoriety.
These pieces, created from new models, reproduce in the form of pitchers or planters animals, characters, sometimes political, fruits or vegetables.
Each model is numbered. This piece has an attribution mark,
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