Jacob Petit (1796-1865) was a porcelain manufacturer and designer who specialized in richly decorated ornamental wares and was instrumental in the revival of the rococo style. His Recueil de decorations interieures was published in Paris in 1830-1831. As a young man Petit trained as a painter, frequenting the studio of Gros whose strong palette he adopted in his porcelain painting; the bold emerald green ground of the urns above is virtually a hallmark of his work. Petit owned factories at Fontainebleau and Sèvres and marketed his goods through warehouses in Paris and London. In addition, he supplied plain white wares to decorators and dealers; thus, porcelain that bears the Petit mark may have been molded in his factory but painted elsewhere. For further discussion of Jacob Petit, see Regine de Plinval de Guillebon, Porcelain de Paris 1770-1850 (New York, 1972), pp. 252-258.