Fig 80.—Faïences of Nevers.
Demmin separates the work done here into four styles or periods, as follows:
“1. The Italian, 1602 to 1670.
“2. The Persian, about 1640.
“3. The Chinese and Dutch, 1640 to 1750.
“4. The popular and patriotic, about 1789.”
The examples shown ([Fig. 80]) are of the later periods, and partake of a general character which prevailed at other manufactories of the periods in France.
The colors during the Persian period were often effective, and the lapis-lazuli blue was rich.
A very great quantity of plates, vases, dishes, etc., was made, many of them rude and cheap, during the time of the French Revolution, which were decorated with revolutionary emblems, pictures of the destruction of the Bastile, with the liberty-cap, and with patriotic cries, such as “Liberté, égalité, ou mort!” and “Vive le roi citoyen!”