Antique French Nevers Faience Revolutionary Plate - MAN, CANNON, BIRD

Description: Antique French Nevers Faience Revolutionary Plate - MAN, CANNON, BIRD - 1789 9 3/8 inches in diameter. The plate is marked on the underside in a dark purple initials that appears to be the capital letter N underlined, sitting over the capital letters AZ The city of Nevers, Nièvre, now in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region in central France, was a centre for manufacturing faience, or tin-glazed earthenware pottery, between around 1580 and the early 19th century. Production of Nevers faience then gradually died down to a single factory, before a revival in the 1880s. The faiences patriotiques of the Revolutionary period typically have one or two figures in the central section, rather crudely painted in a few colours, with a pro-revolutionary slogan or comment below in black cursive script. The earliest examples included pro-monarchist pieces.[56] The same style had been in use before the Revolution, and continued after it, the wider grouping being called faience populaire or faiences parlantes ("talking faience"). These were more comic or satirical than political.[57] Another type of pieces in this popular style, called faience patronymique, showed the patron saint of the recipient, and were common as christening or birthday gifts. These types were made in other centres, but Nevers was the leading produce LR

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