A pair of gilt and enameled porcelain vases, Boyer decorating workshop, Paris, circa 1850-1880

Madame La Vicomtesse de Bondy (label)

T. Préaud and al., The Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory: Alexandre Brongniart and the Triumph of Art and Industry, 1800-1847, New York, 1997, p. 313 for an article on Palissy-style enamel decoration on porcelain.

Jean-Pierre Feuillet was one of the most successful porcelain decorators of the Restoration period of the 19th century. In 1817 he was established at 18 Rue de la Paix, Paris and he enjoyed patronage from the Prince de Condé. Around 1834 he went into partnership with Boyer, who eventually took over the establishment. The fashion for this type of ornament grew with pace in Paris during the second quarter of the 19th century. Denis-Désiré Riocreux, the curator of the Museum at the Sèvres manufactory wrote in note dated 13th October 1840:

'Currently in Paris, decoration is being applied to porcelains analogous to sixteenth-century enamelled coppers from Limoges; this decoration is executed against a glost-fired blue ground in a white enamel so solid that its application seems to have no limits; it becomes extremely rich when combined with gold, making it possible for porcelain to escape the limited possibilities which seem to contain it.'