Manufacture of Saint-Clément (XXth c.) ◊ Pitcher in the shape of a marabout ◊ Enamelled earthenware

Description

Manufacture of Lunéville-Saint-Clément : Jacques Chambrette founded the first in 1730 and the second in 1758. The two prestigious Lorraine manufactories will live separated more than a century, before merger for economic reasons and to be bought in 1892 by the earthenware factories Keller and Guérin. In 1922, the new owner, Edouard Fenal, revived artistic production by appealing to the great names of Art Nouveau as Emile Gallé and then Art Deco artists, like the brothers Mougin. A real know-how and a production based on tableware, with the famous zoomorphic pitchers, the most famous being the duck, the rooster, and among the rarest and sought-after, this marabout.