{"product_id":"estatefreshaustincom-2650","title":"18th Century Sceaux French faience box","description":"18th Century Sceaux French faience snuff box. Good hinge, metal mounts reglued,  no restoration or major damage to Faience pieces, small glaze flakes on bottom\ncorners and one small glaze flake on front right edge. 5.25\" x 4\" x 2.25\"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSceaux ware, tin-glazed earthenware and porcelain made at a factory in Sceaux,\nFr., from 1748 to 1794. Both were skillfully painted in a large range of enamel\ncolours with landscape and figure subjects and with minutely exact flowers and\nbirds. Cupids in pink outline derived from the paintings of François Boucher\nwere typical of the period of Louis XV. Pieces decorated with naturalistic\nflowers, fruit, and the like in relief may have been modeled by Richard Glot,\nwho purchased the factory in 1772.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFaience, or tin-glazed and enameled earthenware, first emerged in France during\nthe sixteenth century, reaching widespread usage among elite patrons during the\nseventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, prior to the establishment of\nsoft-paste porcelain factories. Although characterized as more provincial in\nstyle than porcelain, French faience was used at the court of Louis XIV as part\nof elaborate meals and displays, with large-scale vessels incorporated into the\nBaroque garden designs of Versailles. Earlier examples of French faience attest\nto the strong influence of maiolica artists from Italy. Later works demonstrate\nthe ways in which cities such as Nevers, Rouen, Lyon, Moustiers, and Marseille\ndeveloped innovative vessel shapes and decorative motifs prized among collectors\nthroughout Europe.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhile faience can be created from a wide mixture of clays, it is foremost\ndistinguished by the milky opaque white color achieved by the addition of tin\noxide to the glaze. French faience is typically divided into two types. Grand\nfeu (high fire) describes pieces that have been decorated with glaze and\nmetallic oxides before being fired a single time at a high temperature of around\n1650°F (900°C). Petit feu (low-fire) faience, developed in the second half of\nthe eighteenth century, refers to a process whereby the clay body is fired\nbefore being glazed and decorated with metallic oxides and then fired again at a\nlower temperature; pieces can also go through a third firing. Grand feu pieces\nhave a more limited color palette that consists of blue, yellow, brown-purple,\nand green. By contrast, the lower firing temperature of petit feu faience\nenabled both greater precision in painting techniques and variety in the range\nof colors.\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003etw108","brand":"sale - www.estatefreshaustin.com Estate Fresh Austin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46675321290968,"sku":"12109304456_5833","price":490.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/6284\/7960\/files\/18th-century-sceaux-french-faience-boxestate-fresh-austin-968883.png?v=1757825900","url":"https:\/\/estatefreshaustin.com\/ko\/products\/estatefreshaustincom-2650","provider":"Estate Fresh Austin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}