{"product_id":"antique-french-faience-platter-rouen-style-polychrome-floral-bouquet","title":"Antique French Orléans Faience Platter | 18th Century Polychrome Cul Noir","description":"\u003cp\u003eEverything with this platter feels right because it has everything we look for in aged French faience: color, history, repair, and a mark that ties it to a real place. This Antique Orleans Cul Noir platter has the kind of presence that can enhance a wall, brighten a dining room, or become the piece that everything else in a faience collection gathers around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis antique French faience platter was made in Orléans in the Loire Valley, likely between 1750 and the 1780s. It is marked on the back with an impressed M.B. above a cursive Orléans, which gives the piece a wonderful documented connection to its origin. The shaped oval form is decorated in the Rouen polychrome style, with a hand-painted floral bouquet at the center, small butterflies and insects flitting about and a lively border around the rim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe decoration is fantastic. Cobalt blue throughout, green cartouches, iron red flowerheads and yellow scrollwork all work together in harmony. It has that 18th century French confidence where the painting feels decorative, joyful and completely handmade. There is a lot happening here, but it still comes together beautifully.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTurn it over and the deep manganese cul noir (black bottom) underside gives the platter even more character. The surface has heavy craquelure from age, along with visible aged repairs along the rim in a hard cream-colored filler. Someone cared enough to repair this piece long ago rather than let it disappear, and that matters. The repairs are part of the history now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, it would be beautiful hung in a dining room, kitchen, or sunlit corner where the color can be appreciated. It has two and a half centuries of French pottery history behind it, a documented Orléans mark, and is ready to be welcomed into your home.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Provence Collection","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53503728681303,"sku":"FAI-042","price":605.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/4686\/4215\/files\/antique-french-copper-pitcher-coquemar-allez-freres-paris-hinged-lid-pitcher-2.jpg?v=1778485916","url":"https:\/\/theprovencecollection.com\/products\/antique-french-faience-platter-rouen-style-polychrome-floral-bouquet","provider":"The Provence Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}