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Jacob Petit Old Paris bottles of Queen Mary #1708604

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Jacob Petit Old Paris  bottles of Queen Mary #1708604
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A superb Scottish Troubadour style pair of marked Jacob Petit Old Paris porcelain bottles.The figures are circa 1840.Thay are depicting Mary Queen of Scots and a scottish bagpipe player.Attired in 16th century style dress.He is holding a bagpipe and the Queen is pulling petals from a Scottish Thistle.The petals are falling on her lap.The fiqures are beautifully and boldly modeled and painted in gold gilt all over .Measures 9.1/2 height".Condition:The Queen has a repair to her head dress she is missing one finger.
French hard-paste porcelain produced by Jacob Petit (1796-1868) was the greatest exponent of these innovations.Petit worked at the porcelain factory at Sèvres as a painter. With his brother Mardochée he bought a porcelain factory in Fontainebleau in 1830, By 1839 Petit employed about 200 craftsmen and enjoyed great successfinally settling in Paris in 1863. The wares he made were of a purely ornamental character;vases, urns, clocks, figures, inkwells and perfume bottles. Of particular interest are the figural veilleuses, or bedside tea warmers, known as personnages. These brightly painted beauties can be found in the form of exotic characters like Chinese noblemen, sultans and sultanas, and fortune tellers, or more mundane subjects, such as nuns or street vendors. Each one is made in several parts, the top being the teapot and the bottom being hollow with an opening in the back to fit the tiny porcelain oil lamp or godet. . The high-quality porcelain may have been fired ...
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<tr><td>Condition:Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Year:1840's</td></tr>
<tr><td>Country:Paris France</td></tr>
<tr><td>Maker:Old Paris</td></tr>




<tr><td>Title: Jacob Petit Old Paris bottles of Queen Mary</td></tr>
<tr><td>Style:Troubadour</td></tr>
<tr><td>Materials:Painted porcelain</td></tr>
<tr><td>Type:Old Paris</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location:Historic Baltimore MD</td></tr>
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