Featured Nice vase find

Found this in a trash out of a house. Almost went to trash!

 

So glad you saved it!

 

Paroutaud Freres (brothers) made the blank 1903-1913. It looks like it was painted by a hobbyist china painter, but pretty.

 

Some people are just plain crazy with what they put in the trash!!!!!

 

Just for my knowledge, Do you know if these kinds of blanks were cold-painted, or were they glaze decorated and fired again? Thanks -Joe

 

How very sad that some mother cherished that gift then it ends up in the trash ! Its so pretty why didnt they at least donate it to some charity ?

 

Just call me Charity. Lol

 

I would like to know that, too.

 

indeed

 

Cold-painted I think. They were often done at home and I can't see Jane Homemaker having a high-temp kiln kicking around. Every time I see a piece like this in a thrift I get a little sad. Homemade quilts too, especially since they sell for peanuts if you figure the hours of work in them.

 

That's a tricky question to answer. Some studio pottery companies like Pickard did decorate and fire again. So you could find a Limoges blank that has been cold-painted by a hobbyist, but if Pickard used the same blank then you may find it decorated and fired again. The Pickard decoration would look more professionally done. It all depends (as everlby30 noted) if the person doing the decorating had access to a kiln. The vast majority of hobbyists did not.

It is also possible that a Limoges factory would create a blank, decorate some in-house, and then the export the remaining whiteware to the US for the hobbyist trade.

Other Limoges companies only produced whiteware, some of which was sold to other Limoges companies which did the actual decorating. These pieces usually, but not always, are double marked. Once by the company that produced the whiteware and once by the decorating company.

Hope I have confused the issue unnecessarily.

 

The porcelain factories got there ahead of you.