Frankenthal Round Bowl In Porcelain 18th Century

a round Frankenthal porcelain bowl with polychrome decoration of bouquets of flowers, marked: Lion standing in blue (a small chip, H. 9.5 cm, D. 21 cm 18th century.

Three generations of the Hannong family founded and managed during the 18th century (between 1721 and 1784) the earthenware factories of Strasbourg and Haguenau in Alsace, and the porcelain factory of Frankenthal in the Palatinate.
Several types of production, always of greater technicality, can be distinguished: blue grand feu earthenware, from 1721 to 1730, then polychrome from 1730 to 1745. The appearance of a "mixed technique" of firing between 1735 and 1745 with new decorations, Indian flower, hunting scenes, chinoiseries or biblical subjects; then between 1745 and 1781, the small fire earthenware decorated with Cassius purple in the two qualities of decoration which will be taught at the factory's painting school. Between 1765 and 1775 Chinese-style decorations and pieces of decorative form, trompe-l'oeil, tableware, torches, statuettes appeared. The Hannongs made hard porcelain between 1752 and 1755 and then from 1774 to 1779.