Mosanic Pottery Quimper French Faience Cache Pot 20th Century retailer Hand Painted Chinese Decoration Antique

Mosanic Pottery Quimper French Faience Cache Pot 20th Century Hand Painted Chinese Decoration

A highly decorative Mosanic Pottery cache pot. We estimate c.1910

11cm high, 13cm diameter retailer (max).

Condition is very good, some slight wear or chips to glaze as usual for old faience, please see images.

Mosanic produced many different forms of decorative pottery, much in the style of Quimper pottery.

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Faience, or tin-glazed and enamelled earthenware, first emerged in France during the sixteenth century, reaching widespread usage among elite patrons during the seventeenth and early eighteenth century. While faience can be created from a wide mixture of clays, it is foremost distinguished by the milky opaque white colour achieved by the addition of tin oxide to the glaze.