Antique French Felix Potin Jam Pot | Confitures Fines Paris | Late 19th Century
There is something really fun about old French publicity pieces like this. Before everything came in disposable packaging, even a pot of jam could arrive in a little ceramic container worth keeping. This antique French Felix Potin confiture pot still has that feeling: useful, charming and tied directly to the everyday pantry life of Paris at the end of the 19th century.
The front is printed in green with a cartouche reading Confitures Fines Felix Potin Paris, framed by laurel swags, ribbons and floral scrollwork. Below the lettering is a small medallion where the flavor of the jam would once have been written by hand. How cool is that?
This pot à confiture (jam pot) was made in faience fine, most likely at the Manufacture KG Lunéville workshops, which produced ceramics for Felix Potin in the late 19th and early 20th century.
Felix Potin was one of the great names in the development of the modern Parisian grocery, and branded pots like this traveled into thousands of French kitchens.
The underside carries the mark of the original Felix Potin factory at La Villette in Paris, which gives the piece another wonderful layer of history. The white ceramic shows soft crazing, gentle wear on the bottom and the kind of age that makes it feel like it came straight from an old pantry shelf.
Today, it would be beautiful holding wooden spoons, silverware, flowers, pencils or little kitchen odds and ends. It would also sit perfectly on a shelf with French ironstone, transferware or old advertising pieces. This lovely little jam pot carries a really wonderful story of French food, packaging, pantry life and Parisian grocery history.
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Antique French Felix Potin Jam Pot | Confitures Fines Paris | Late 19th Century
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