Niderviller pottery

Niderviller (German Niederweiler) faience is one of the most famous French pottery manufacturers. It has been located in Niderviller, Lorraine, France since 1735. It also produced porcelain statues in the Meissen style starting in the mid-18th century.

History

In 1735, Anne-Marie Défontaine, a town noblewoman, decided to put her forests and quarries to a good use by starting a pottery works. She drew on local skills available in Lorraine to gather the proper staff.

In 1763, the company started producing porcelain objects, thanks to the help of workers recruited from Saxony.

In 1770, the company was sold to Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine. Shortly after, it started producing fine earthenware products in the English style.

Tableware

Terrine dish, traditional Niderviller monochrome in pink, c. 1760
Statuette for salt & pepper, Niderviller, 18th century
"The broken clog", Niderviller, 18th century
Covered tureen, Niderviller exhibited in the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery 18th century

Developments since 1827

The company was sold to a former partner of Villeroy & Boch in 1827.

Museums exhibiting Niderviller ceramics

Many museums across the world display Niderviller products, including: the Louvre, the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, the Sèvres – Cité de la céramique , the Palace of the Dukes of Lorraine , the Musée des Arts décoratifs, Strasbourg , but also theSmithsonian Institution, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, museums in Basel, Zürich ^[1]…

List of some designers and other artists involved with Niderviller

Paul-Louis Cyfflé
Charles Sauvage, aka. Lemire
Jean Boggio

References

^ la faïencerie de Niderviller p.50

Dorothée Guillemé Brulon (et al.), Histoire de la faïence française. Strasbourg-Niderviller : sources et rayonnement, C. Massin, Paris, 1999, 167 p. ISBN 2-7072-0345-9.
Tardy & Adrien Lesur (1950, re-published in 1987). Les porcelaines françaises (Caractéristiques, marques) (in French). Aubenas: Tardy. p. 836. les porcelaines françaises. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |year= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameters: |day= and |month= (help)
Jean-Louis Janin-Daviet, Hervé de la Verrie (2007). Mémoire d'une collection éphémère au Château d'Haroué (in French). Drulingen: imprimerie Scheuer. p. 187. ISBN 2-913162-71-1. Mémoire d'une collection éphémère. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |day= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
Chantal Soudée-Lacombe (February 1984). Faïenciers et Porcelainiers De Niderviller au XVIIIème siècle (collection: Le Pays Lorrain n°1) (in French). SHAL. p. 76. Faïenciers et Porcelainiers De Niderviller.
Dominique Dubus, La famille Seeger : aperçu des manufactures de Niderviller et de la rue Pierre Levée à Paris aux XVIII^e et XIX^e siècles, D. Dubus, Cauge, Évreux, 1984. ISBN 2-904815-01-5.
Martine Hassenforder, Les faïenciers de Niderviller, Musée du pays de Sarrebourg, Sarrebourg, 1990, 100 p. ISBN 2-908789-07-8.
Dominique Heckenbenner (dir.), Porcelaines de Niderviller (catalogue de l'exposition, Musée du pays de Sarrebourg, 29 June – 22 September 1996), Musée du pays de Sarrebourg, Sarrebourg, 1996. p. 72. ISBN 2-908789-12-4.
Patrick Bichet & Henry Bourgon (February 2013). La Faïencerie De Niderviller (ses origines il y a 250 ans) (in French). Drulingen: SHAL. p. 55. ISBN 2-909433463. Faïencerie De Niderviller.
Maurice Noël (1961). Recherches sur la céramique Lorraine (in French). Nancy, faculté de lettre. p. 225. thèse de IIIème cycle.

External links

[1] la faïencerie de Niderviller p.50

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