Project Description
Huile sur toile
Dimensions : 44 cm x 60 cm
Signed upper left Bertha J. 1948
Still life with pitcher and plates from Lunéville
Berthe J.
The pottery of Lunéville St Clément.
The origin of the manufacture can be identified by 1711, year when (Jean)-Jacques Chambrette father (1683-1751), Master potter from Dijon, creates on behalf of the Count of Fontenoy a first pottery in Lorraine in Champigneulles. In 1722, the history of earthenware begins in Lunéville when his son, Jacques Chambrette (1705-1758), established himself there as an earthenware merchant. From 1723, he becomes supplier to the Court. It's only by 1729 or maybe 1730, that Jacques Chambrette son opened his first earthenware factory there. However, he did not obtain his official letters patent until the speak Duke Francis III allowing him to pull land and wood where he wants, then the par Elisabeth-Charlotte d'Orléans, exemptions from charges and taxes.
in parallel, in 1739, Jacques Chambrette joins forces with a certain Daix to take over the Portieux glassworks.
After having developed on the one hand in 1748 the pipe land (with chalk or calcareous marls, cooking white) -secret composition which will be transmitted by one of his grandsons to the Niderviller pottery– Then Land of Lorraine (with lime phosphate), lands giving a fine and white earthenware which allowed to obtain delicate details, -technique from England to imitate porcelain, why it is sometimes called “opaque porcelain”-, as well as on the other hand finer and polychrome decorations thanks to firing in a so-called muffle oven “street lamp” (little fire) -German invention of meissen– , Jacques Chambrette demonstrates the refinement of his new productions to Voltaire, to her friend Emilie du Chatelet and to the King Stanislas Leszczynski , the latter then granting him new letters patent on , with the right to draw his land from all unenclosed places in Lorraine, and subsequently the authorization for the distinction of Manufacture Royale. This development made it possible to increase exports to Germany., Poland, Italy and even the colonies. In 1753, we already count about 200 workers working there .
Cependant, to escape the heavy taxes on exports to France (from the Duchy of Lorraine), Jacques Chambrette creates a second factory in St. Clement after request to the king Louis XV in 1756 (official authorization obtained on ), this village located on the lands of the Three Bishoprics.
On the death of Jacques Chambrette in 1758, his son Gabriel (1732-1788) and his son-in-law, Charles Loyal (husband of Françoise Chambrette, 1730-1778), take over the two Lunéville factories & St. Clement. Cependant, this alliance will be of short duration and from 1763, Charles Loyal buys that of Saint-Clément with Richard Mic and Paul-Louis Cyffle, while Gabriel Chambrette retains that of Lunéville.
Source : https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fa%C3%AFencerie_de_Lun%C3%A9ville-Saint-Cl%C3%A9ment
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