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One design, which became typical for Quimper faience, is the "petit breton", a naive representation of Breton man and/or woman in traditional Breton costume. The "petit breton" became popular around 1870 and is still today the main design bought by tourists. [2] Older Quimper faience items are sought after by collectors worldwide. [citation needed]
Quimper has also been known for copper and bronze work, galvanised ironware, hosiery, leather, paper and woollen goods, as well as being a gastronomic destination for its varied regional dishes. Adolphe Harré was a French sailor from Quimper who died during World War I along with the 31 crew members of the SS Longwy, a French merchant vessel ...
Quimperlé is in the southeast of Finistère, 20 km to the west of Lorient and 44 km to the east of Quimper. Historically, it belongs to Cornouaille. The town is situated at the confluence of the Isole and Ellé rivers that combine to form the Laïta river, hence its name: confluent (kemper-) of the Ellé (-le). A fourth smaller river, the ...
Hispano-Moresque ware dish from Manises, 15th century, the earliest type of European faience. Technically, lead-glazed earthenware, such as the French sixteenth-century Saint-Porchaire ware, does not qualify as faience, but the distinction is not usually maintained. Semi-vitreous stoneware may be glazed like faience.
Haviland & Co. is a manufacturer of Limoges porcelain in France, begun in the 1840s by the American Haviland family, importers of porcelain to the US, which has always been the main market. Its finest period is generally accepted to be the late 19th century, when it tracked wider artistic styles in innovative designs in porcelain, as well as ...
Huge amounts especially of silver were sent from Europe to China [2] to pay for the desired Chinese porcelain wares, and numerous attempts were made to duplicate the material. [3] It was in Nevers faience that Chinese-style blue and white wares were produced for the first time in France, with production running between 1650 and 1680. [4]
Queen Esther and King Ahasuerus depicted dining on, among other things, a fish dish and a pretzel; illustration from Hortus deliciarum, Alsace, late 12th century.. Though various forms of dishes consisting of batter or dough cooked in fat, like crêpes, fritters and doughnuts were common in most of Europe, they were especially popular among Germans and known as krapfen (Old High German: "claw ...
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