Paris art faïence
Paris, France · Faïence · also recorded as Théodore Deck, Hippolyte Pinart, A. Jean, Deck & Collinot
Marks
Plate I
active 1862
HP in monogram · painted monogram · engraved in the sourceChaffers 1891, p.186Hippolyte Pinart, keramic painter, 7 Rue des Récollets. A painter's mark rather than a factory mark — it identifies a hand, not a works.
Plate II
from 1859
A. Jean device · painted · engraved in the sourceChaffers 1891, p.186A. Jean, 11 Rue de Sèvres, making imitations of maiolica. Chaffers gives two marks for him — this device and the signature below.
Plate III
from 1859
Jean, in script · painted signature · engraved in the sourceChaffers 1891, p.186The second of A. Jean's two marks. A signature rather than a device.
Plate IV
from 1859
FD in monogram · painted monogram · engraved in the sourceChaffers 1891, p.186Théodore Deck. The initials are reversed relative to the name — F over D for Deck — which is worth knowing before dismissing a piece because the letters look wrong.
What the source records
- Théodore Deck established a manufactory of faïences d'art in 1859, with a magasin at 12 Rue Halévy.Chaffers 1891 · p.186
- Deck showed encrusted ware at the International Exhibition of 1862, which sold very freely to English buyers and won him a medal.Chaffers 1891 · p.186
- Deck's ware has coloured pastes inserted in patterns into the body, in the manner of Henri II ware, sometimes in Persian designs.Chaffers 1891 · p.186
- Artists engaged at Deck's fabrique included Anker, Ranvier, Legrain, Glück, Ehrman, Hirsch, Schubert, Benner and Madame Escallier.Chaffers 1891 · p.186
- The Brothers Deck were first induced to imitate Persian wares by M. Adalbert de Beaumont, a traveller and artist who collected designs and copies of detail.Chaffers 1891 · p.186
- Deck later took the chemist M. Collinot into partnership and erected a kiln for cloisonné wares in Arabian and Persian style, tracing designs on the ware with aquafortis filled in with coloured enamels.Chaffers 1891 · p.186
- Hippolyte Pinart, a keramic painter of 7 Rue des Récollets, obtained a medal at the International Exhibition of 1862.Chaffers 1891 · p.186
- A. Jean, of 11 Rue de Sèvres, established a manufactory of faïences artistiques in 1859 making imitations of maiolica, and obtained a medal in 1862.Chaffers 1891 · p.186
Why this differs from other listings
These are nineteenth-century art potters rather than an eighteenth-century factory, and they are usually catalogued individually with no indication that they shared a moment, a city and an exhibition. Chaffers puts them on one page around the 1862 International Exhibition, names the artists Deck employed, and gives the mechanism — Adalbert de Beaumont's collected Persian designs — that set the whole Paris Persian-revival going.
The source page
What this entry does not establish
- Chaffers is writing close to these makers' own lifetimes and gives no closing dates; the marks are not bounded at the later end.
- A monogram of two letters is weak evidence on its own. FD and HP are not unique to these makers across European ceramics.