Collection De Faïences -

France (Faïence) Collection de Faïences (title on spine). (France, later 19th century). Oblong 4to, contemporary half red morocco and marbled boards with monogram A. G. at foot of spine. Manuscript album of French Faïence; a charming album of watercolor and pen and ink drawings on laid paper watermarked Dambricourt Frères of Hallines, a 19th century French papermaker. Faïence is tin-glazed pottery with painted decoration on an earthenware body. With 147 unnumbered leaves, including three very pretty calligraphic divisional titles within pictorial or decorative borders and forty blank pages. Meticulously painted depictions of the ware in three parts. The first, Faïence Patriotique, a specialty in the years of the French Revolution, contains 58 drawings of plates decorated with motifs of the Revolution, mostly two per page. the second, Porcelaines et Faïences, Genres Divers, shows 21 examples on 19 pages of a variety of shapes of ceramiques from Rouen, Delft and elsewhere. The third, Marques de Porcelaines et Faïences , is a manuscript guide to mostly French manufacturers of the 17th to 19th centuries with over 400 drawings of their monograms and marks, including Sèvres, Rouen, Lille, Lorraine, Île de France, Alsace, Provence, Orléans and Nivernais. . Morocco and Marbled Boards. Fine. Oblong 4to.