Manufacture De Niderviller - Litron Cup And Saucer With Barbels - Hard Porcelain - Empire Period

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Litron cup and saucer
Painted and gilded hard porcelain
Signed under the base 
Niderviller, circa 1802 - 1827
Dimensions : H. ; D. (cm.)

Elegant litron cup decorated with barbels. This piece is signed with an "N" in manganese followed by a number corresponding to Lanfrey's management period.

Provenance: Société Industrielle de Mulhouse for over a century, a learned society founded in 1826 by Protestant industrialists, was recognised as being of public utility by a royal decree in 1832.

Niderviller porcelain
The development of hard-paste porcelain owes much to Comte de Custine, who bought the factory in 1770. His partnership with Lanfrey in 1778 secured a permanent supply of kaolin. The factory flourished throughout the 1780's. Unfortunately, fate had other plans: the Count was guillotined in 1793... Lanfrey managed to sell the company in 1827, and its new owner shifted production to fine earthenware.

Condition report: good condition, with a very slight chip on the lip.