Large French Multicolor Glazed Ceramic Table Centerpiece

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Large and flamboyant ceramic table center; The shape, rich in soft curves and rounded ends, fascinates us for its unparalleled and elegant plasticity and lightness, while the bright colors make it very adopted; The table center has been designed with extraordinary and intelligence, building cable internally to give it more volume and then proceed to its beautiful colored finish. Still raw, but cooked a first time, painted it with an opaque black paint with the dive technique, then it was baked at about 1000 ° to stop the color, once cooled, a craft painter applied brushstrokes Of lively enamel dyes, so everything has been rotted to fix the entire glazing. It was built between 1950 and 1955 by the famous Longwy ceramic factory in France as can be certified by the brand on the bottom. Longwy, a story that begins in the 1798 in Lorraine when Nothomb and Boch, surname that will reappear in many other manufactures, open a ceramic factory in a former convent to which they give the name of the city in which it is based, a French municipality in the Meurthe department And Moselle in the region of the Grand Est. His production earned fame after the visit of Emperor Napoleon I, who ordered Longwy crockery for the imperial houses of the Legion of Honor. In 1835, the Huart family became the owner of the ceramics and made it thrive throughout the nineteenth century. Around 1870, in full oriental age and to counter the growing imports from Japan and China, the director of Mikado factories, the Italian Amédée de Carenza, was brought to Longwy and brought with him his exclusive ideas: taking as a model The enamels present in China and Japan, De Carenza imagined their equivalent in ceramics: the first Longwy enamels were born and their fame would have grown and for more than a century Longwy had the exclusive rights for terracotta enamels. The Longwy successfully participated in the exhibition of the decorative arts of 1925, in that of 1931, their particular vessel won the gold medal. The factory of Maiolics began his third century of existence in 1998. Our table is in excellent condition. Measurements diameter cm.43, height cm.10. For all our expeditions we use special packaging materials (wooden cases, polystyrene, etc.) for maximum protection and safety of objects.