Tournai Porcelain - Part Of Service Lauriers Fleuri - Eighteenth Century

TOURNAI Part of a soft porcelain service with blue decorations of nets and friezes of flowered laurels on the rim comprising six flat plates, six soup plates, an oval dish and a dish. 18th century Between 1750 and 1891, porcelain factories contributed to the reputation of the art industry in Tournai. Supported by local and national leaders, François-Joseph Peterinck and his descendants decorated the tables with rooms in shimmering polychromy or blue decorations. In the 18th century, after a period of development, where only polychrome flowers were represented, the artistic director Michel-Joseph Duvivier developed quantities of new decorations which would allow the Tournai factory to reach the rank of the great European factories. In parallel with the evolution of the style and the polychrome decorations, the Tournaisian factories produced original blue decorations, which little by little imposed themselves as a trademark. Initially inspired by Chinese motifs, the ronda, fly or bird decorations evolved throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. The simple decorations of garlands, already so contemporary, quickly come to decorate the edge of the rooms and are declined to infinity in Louis XVI garland, in ear, in ring, in caterpillar, in flowered laurel...