The Bordeaux Potteries, and in particular the firm of Vieillard & Co. under the guidance of designer Lénon Parvillée and his collaborator Amédée de Caranza, are thought to be one of the first the manufacturers to introduce Isnic and Ottoman patterns into French ceramics. Vieillard & Co. began to produce these wares soon after Parvillée was commissioned in 1863 to restore a royal Ottoman residence in Brousse, a village in Anatolia and ancient captial of Asia Minor. The style was subsequently made popular through the work of Théodore Deck, who claimed to have been the fist to introduce it to the public at the 1874 Exhibition of Decorative Arts.