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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 ...
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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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.
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
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The Museum of la Belle Epoque de la Faïence de Desvres [4] (which is housed in the former Fourmaintraux factory) contains a collection of more than 10,000 moulds by Gabriel Fourmaintraux.Pieces by Fourmaintraux – particularly his earlier work in porcelain – are now collector's items and can sell for many thousands of euros.