| DESCRIPTION. | Owner. | Whence obtained. | Cost. | Estimated Value. |
| 27. Tazza | Le Duc d’Uzes | £500 | ||
| 28. Cover of cup | Le Duc d’Uzes | 150 | ||
| 29. Pilgrim’s bottle | Le Duc d’Uzes | 800 | ||
| 30. Tazza and cover | M. Hutteau d’Origny | 500 | ||
| 31. Tazza and cover | Musée de Cluny | Bought by M. Thoré in 1798 | £20 | 500 |
| 32. Salt-cellar | Baron A. de Rothschild | 300 | ||
| 33. Jug or canette | Baron A. de Rothschild | Bought by Strauss, £600 | 800 | 1,000 |
| 34. Small ewer | Baron A. de Rothschild | Préaux sale, 1850 | 44 | 500 |
| 35. Candlestick | Baron G. de Rothschild | £1,000 | ||
| 36 Hanap | Baron G. de Rothschild | 500 | ||
| 37. Tazza | Baron James de Rothschild | South of France, 1860 | £480 | 500 |
| 38. Biberon | Museum of the Louvre | Sauvageot, from Tours | 800 | |
| 39. Salt-cellar | Museum of the Louvre | Sauvageot, from Lehrié, 1824 | 5 | 300 |
| 40. Salt-cellar | Museum of the Louvre | Sauvageot, from Troyes | 300 | |
| 41. Salt-cellar | Museum of the Louvre | Sauvageot, from Troyes | 300 | |
| 42. Tazza | Museum of the Louvre | Sauvageot, bo’t as Palissy | 8 | 500 |
| 43. Salt-cellar | Museum of the Louvre | Revoil collection, 1828 | 300 | |
| 44. Tazza | Museum of the Louvre | Revoil collection, 1828 | 500 | |
| 45. Tazza | Sèvres Museum | 500 | ||
| 46. Cover of cup | Sèvres Museum | 150 | ||
| 47. Salt-cellar | Madame d’Yvon | 300 | ||
| 48. Salt-cellar | Comte de Tussau | 300 | ||
| 49. Salt-cellar | Comte de Tussau | 300 | ||
| 50. Salt-cellar | Comte de Tussau | 300 | ||
| 51. Cover of tazza. | M. B. Delessert | South of France, by Rutter. | 4 | 150 |
| 52. Biberon |
In Russia, one piece:
| DESCRIPTION. | Owner. | Whence obtained. | Cost. | Estimated Value. |
| 53. Biberon. | Prince Galitzin | Préaux sale, 1850 | £100 | £800 |
CHAPTER VIII.
FRENCH FAIENCE.—NEVERS, ROUEN, BEAUVAIS, ETC.
Number of Manufactories.—Their Rise and Decline.—Nevers.—Prices.—Beauvais.—Rouen.—Moustiers.—Strasbourg, or Haguenau.—Marseilles.—Sarreguemines.—Sinceny, Nancy, Creil, Montpellier.—Paris.—Paris to-day.—Limoges.—Deck.
OF French faiences, the Palissy ware and the Henri-Deux have been already treated.
I now propose to give some account of the most prominent among the very large number of potteries which, in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries, sprang up in various parts of France. Mr. Chaffers, in his work upon “Pottery,” etc., enumerates one hundred and sixty-five factories which in 1790 petitioned the National Assembly that they might not be ruined by the floods of cheap pottery then being sent in from England; and this was not the whole number in France.
Great skill and much good taste have been expended upon the faiences of France, and some of the work rises into the region of art. Much of that found in collections and museums is of this kind. But it should not be forgotten that the great purpose and business of those manufactories was the production of dishes, plates, and services, for the table—for the uses of life. And in this direction the production in France was very large and profitable, until the time when, as said above, the introduction of cheap wares from England ruined the makers. These disastrous changes and whimseys of trade, disagreeable as they may be to the masters and the workmen who are ruined, do give a certain zest and variety to human history; they relieve life from the monotony and dullness which usually attends upon unbroken prosperity. As some of the doctrinaires tell us, they are really blessings—often very much in disguise; at least, they seem so to those who are the immediate sufferers.