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The Clérissy faience factories or ateliers Clérissy were the main pottery factories making Moustiers faience, operated by members of the Clérissy family in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, in Marseille, France, and later Varages and elsewhere. [1] Family members continued to produce faïence in different locations until ...
Moustiers-Sainte-Marie (French pronunciation: [mustje sɛ̃t maʁi]; Occitan: Mostiers Santa Maria), or simply Moustiers, is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of Southeastern France. It is a member of Les Plus Beaux Villages de France (The Most Beautiful Villages of France) Association.
The museum also features faïence from Moustiers-Sainte-Marie (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) which also manufactured a prestigious production that appeared slightly later around 1680, but which continued until 1982. A revival of this production was made in 1927 by Marcel Provence, who opened on that date a manufacturing canter and created the ...
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Jean Solome (1674–1752), historian from Moustiers-Sainte-Marie; Prior Laurensi (1719–1808), historian. Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1774 at Oraison – 1838), a famous doctor for his work on the case of the Feral child, Victor of Aveyron, and pioneer of the ear, nose and throat speciality; Jean Aimé Édouard de Laplane (1774–1870), historian ...
In the aftermath of his graduation, he started work in the pottery industry in Moustiers-Sainte-Marie. [1] He then lived in Rome for six years [2] under the patronage of Perron, an arts enthusiast from Aix. Later, he moved back to Aix to work as a painter there.
Nevers already had a local unglazed pottery industry, and was a very suitable location for making faience. The city was near deposits of excellent pottery clay, an exceptionally good type of sand for making ceramic glaze, forests for wood for the kilns, and was on the major Loire river. The earliest dated piece by the Italians is from 1587. [9]
Moustier or Moustiers is the name or part of the name of several communes in France and Belgium: Belgium. Moustier, Hainaut, in Hainaut province; Moustier-sur-Sambre, in Namur province; France. Moustier, Lot-et-Garonne, in the Lot-et-Garonne département; Moustier-en-Fagne, in the Nord département; Moustier-Ventadour, in the Corrèze département