Fine Bordeaux Earthenware Dinner Service With Nella Decoration Featuring Flowers And Birds, 19th Century

Exceptional fine earthenware dinner service from Bordeaux, Nella pattern with Japanese-inspired bird and flower motifs, different on each piece. Polychrome decorations hand-painted with extreme finesse and shimmering colors. A very harmonious composition featuring birds such as parrots and kingfishers, as well as various insects: butterflies, dragonflies, ladybugs... Delicate flowers including water lilies, lotuses, carnations, anemones, prunus, dahlias, roses, and irises... White background highlighted with a cobalt blue border. All in very good condition. Service created by the Bordeaux factory Vieillard & Cie in the 1870s in a harmonious style reminiscent of both 18th-century naturalistic porcelain and Japonisme. The Vieillard & Cie factory is renowned worldwide for its inventiveness and profound understanding of Persian and Japanese graphic arts: its production is characterized by oriental fantasy, landscapes, flowers, and exotic birds. All pieces are marked “JVB” underneath, and the shaped pieces are also marked with the service name “Nella.” A true splendor! This service comprises 94 pieces, including: 35 dinner plates (25 cm diameter), 12 soup plates, 23 dessert plates, 4 low stemmed bowls, 2 tall stemmed bowls, 1 tureen (1 light fel), 1 gravy boat, 1 jam pot, 11 cream pots, 1 large fish platter, 2 round platters, and 1 rectangular platter, for a total of 94 pieces. Additional photos are available upon request.