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Editions Ch. Massin, Published [No date: circa 1980]. Hardcover, 80 pp.; 26 cm; text in French, in two columns; printed by Imprimerie Lazare-Ferry, Paris; hardcover issue (the same ISBN was also issued in wraps); illustrated throughout with color photographs by Studios Dupuis; table of 74 factory marks drawn from the pieces photographed; table of contents.
In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Red cloth boards with white lettering on front and spine, mild shelf wear, light bumping to corners. Binding tight. Number in pen at upper corner of front free endpaper. Pages clean and unmarked. Orange pictorial dust jacket (a Chantilly chinoiserie tureen, a Sceaux ewer and basin, and a Mennecy ewer on front; a Sevres wine cooler and a Paris bowl on rear) with light rubbing and light edge wear, a bookseller's price sticker on rear panel; front flap prints the Massin backlist. Now in an archival quality (removable) Brodart cover. Collector's survey of French porcelain from the soft-paste experiments of the 1670s to Art Nouveau Sevres and Haviland's Japanese-style Limoges. Runs through the soft-paste factories (Rouen, Saint-Cloud, Chantilly, Mennecy, Bourg-la-Reine, Sceaux, Orleans, Vincennes, Sevres, Arras), the discovery of kaolin at Saint-Yrieix and the hard-paste makers (Strasbourg, Niderviller, Sevres, Limoges), the Paris manufactories of the 18th century, and the 19th century at Paris, Sevres, and Limoges (Dihl et Guerhard, Lefebvre, Schoelcher, Nast, Honore et Dagoty, the Darte brothers, Le Gros d'Anizy, Jacob Petit, Pouyat, Haviland). Pieces are from the Sevres, Arts Decoratifs, Strasbourg, and Adrien Dubouche museums, each caption keyed to a numbered mark in the table. One of the Massin series of pocket-quarto guides to faience, porcelain, and furniture. Contents: La porcelaine en Europe; La porcelaine tendre en France; Les privileges; Les techniques; La porcelaine tendre (Rouen; Saint-Cloud; Chantilly; Mennecy; La sculpture des manufactures de Saint-Cloud, Chantilly, Mennecy; Bourg-la-Reine; Sceaux; Orleans; Vincennes; Sevres; La sculpture a Vincennes et a Sevres; Arras); La decouverte du kaolin en France, Les debuts de la fabrication de la porcelaine dure (Strasbourg; Niderviller; Sevres; Limoges; La province); La porcelaine de Paris au XVIIIe siecle (Les caracteristiques de la porcelaine de Paris; Les quatre grandes manufactures privilegiees; Un autre apercu sur la porcelaine de Paris); La porcelaine au XIXe siecle, Paris, Sevres, Limoges (Dihl et Guerhard; Lefebvre; Schoelcher; Nast; Honore et Dagoty; Les Darte; Le Gros d'Anizy; Jacob Petit; Sevres; Limoges).