A Rare French Faience Charger Decorated with Flowers by Joseph Hannong, circa 1770

An extremely rare French Faience charger hand-painted with a pink rose and sprays of blue and yellow flowers by Joseph Hannong in Strasbourg circa 1770.  The border is moulded with slightly lobed panels and painted dark brown. French faience of this type was used at the court of Louis XV.  The underside is marked in under glaze blue with Joseph Hannong''s interlaced "JH" cypher over "155".

Joseph and his brother Paul, were known for the fabulous flower painting on their petit-feu faience (tin-glazed and enamelled earthenware). Petit feu (low fire) faience refers to a process whereby the clay body is fired before being glazed and decorated with metallic oxides and then fired again at a lower temperature.   This enabled greater precision in painting techniques and greater variety in the range of colours.

Similar examples are in museum collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and Minneapolis Institute of Art.

In excellent overall condition (minor chips to the underside). Please dm for images.

30.5 cm diameter