BY CARON & LEFEBVRE, CIRCA 1806

The porcelain factory, located on Rue Amelot in Paris, initially sponsored by the duc d’Orleans, was bought in May 1802 by Toussaint Caron, who was joined in 1806 by Jacques Lefèbvre. This manufactory took part in the Exposition des Produits de l’Industrie in 1806, where it received a silver medal and presented two Egyptian tripods or atheniennes. On this occasion, Caron & Lefèbvre created an advertising card illustrating the most remarkable pieces of their production, which depicted at its centre an identical athenienne to the pair presented here. It is stated in the catalogue of the Exposition des Produits de l’Industrie that the trade of the Caron and Lefèbvre was mostly abroad, and particularly with Russia. These atheniennes may have once been in the Imperial collection at Pavlovsk Palace, as an identical athenienne was photographed there in 1905, illustrated by Ouspenski, 'les Trésors d’Art dans le grand palais de Pavlovsk', Starvé Gody, 1912.