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Lot Essay
Comparatively less is known about the Niderviller porcelain factory, situated in the Lorraine-Alsace region, established in 1748. It attracted workers from neighbouring concerns: Strasbourg, Saxony, Frankenthal and Vienna, which produced ceramic wares in the Rococo taste. The kilns were closed in 1827, but the old Niderviller figure moulds were re-used for an exhibiton for the Munich Museum in 1886 and again for Metz Museum in 1908-9.
In the 1770's modellers and painters came from Ludwigsburg, Höscht and Pflaz-Zweibrücken, and from the 1778's the factory was under the artistic directorship of Charles Sauvage, called 'Lemire', who brought numerous models from the factory at Lunvillé, where he had previously worked. The factory struggled through the French Revolutionary period to finally close it's kilns in 1827. The old Niderviller figure moulds were re-used for an exhibiton for the Munich Museum in 1886 and again for Metz Museum in 1908-9.
Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain: A Catalogue of the British Museum, London, 1994, pp. 283-285.
In the 1770's modellers and painters came from Ludwigsburg, Höscht and Pflaz-Zweibrücken, and from the 1778's the factory was under the artistic directorship of Charles Sauvage, called 'Lemire', who brought numerous models from the factory at Lunvillé, where he had previously worked. The factory struggled through the French Revolutionary period to finally close it's kilns in 1827. The old Niderviller figure moulds were re-used for an exhibiton for the Munich Museum in 1886 and again for Metz Museum in 1908-9.
Aileen Dawson, French Porcelain: A Catalogue of the British Museum, London, 1994, pp. 283-285.