Manufacture Locré, Milk Jug With 18th Century Flower Decor

Milk jug or small jug in hard porcelain decorated with garlands of flowers, wolf teeth and gold fillets. Mark in red from the Manufacture de Locré, Paris eighteenth century It was in 1773 that Jean Baptiste Locré bought his workshop in Rue de la Fontaine au Roi. He was born in 1726 into a wealthy family, being the son of a textile merchant of Saxon origin. By renting out his land, he had his workshop and ovens built in 1772. On July 14, 1773, he registered his mark in the form of two crossed blue arrows. In the same year, he joined forces with Laurent Russinger who became his second, mastering the technique of hard porcelain. In 1787, Locré was ruined because of manufacturing costs. He sells it to Russinger who moves it to build new workshops. Ruined too, Russinger ceded the factory to the Pouyat family, but he remained at the head of production. The year 1810 marks the death of Russinger and Locré, gradually causing the bankruptcy of the factory. In 1820, the ovens of the first workshops went out. In 1825, Jean Marx Clauss revived the factory in premises rented to Alexandre Dodé, Russinger's son-in-law. The Locré factory saw three generations of Clauss before being taken over by Achille Bloch in 1887.