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Mid Century, Set 4/ H.B. QUIMPER, France, Faience Oyster Plates, 6 Wells + Center Butter, Hand Painted Sylistic Floral, Blue Sponged Rims A set of four (4) Majolica Oyster Plates by H.B. Henriot from a town called "Quimper" with six 6-Wells & a Center Well for Butter. Each are individually hand decorated with Stylistic Minimalist Red Stemmed Flowers with Green Fronds & blue dabs outlining each oyster well, a round center butter well is rimmed in yellow with a little blue flower with green fronds. The rims are sponged in blue. Three of the four plates are signed on the rear & one is unmarked. One is signed: "HB Quimper F358 D740 AL" Two are signed: "HB Quimper A. Breton F.358-D240 G.C." Size: 9.5" Diameter x 1" High Condition: Overall excellent condition. There are some glaze imperfections. One has what appears to be a very small chip on the edge, & there are some misses of the blue sponge paint on the edges which may appear to be chips but they are not, just missing enamel. Please see last photo. Unknown pattern name. Folk style, & unsure dates of manufacture. Net Wt. 4 lbs. 8 oz. Some Information about the History of Quimper Faience: The tin-glazed handpainted French faience known as Quimper Pottery, pronounced "cam-pair" has been manufactured in Quimper, a town in Brittany, France for over 300 years. The pottery adopted its name from the town of Quimper where potter Jean Baptiste Bousquet built his kilns in the Quimper area of Locmaria in 1685 & was given a royal manufacturing license by King Louis XIV. Although the area of Locmaria in Quimper has been associated with pottery as far back as the Gallo-Roman era, Bousquet is credited with being the founder of "Quimper Pottery". His firm was known as HB Quimper. in 1772, a rival firm was founded by Francoise Eloury known as Porquier. A third firm formed in 1778 by Guillaume Dumaine which was known as HR or Henriot Quimper. The pottery made by the three companies was similar featuring the Breton peasants & sea & flower motifs. in 1913, Porquier & Henriot merged with HB joining the others in 1968. The company was sold to a US family in 1984. More changes followed & in 2011 Jean Pierre Le Goff purchased the company & changed the name to Henriot. Each piece of Quimper faience is completely handmade & painstakingly hand-painted. Each piece of Quimper is unique. One artist handpaints each piece from start to finish. Each piece is then initialed by the artists & marked Henriot to ensure its authenticity. Mid-Century, Set 4/ H.b. Quimper, France, Faience Oyster Plates, 6 Wells + Center Butter, Hand Painted Sylistic Floral, Blue Sponged Rims
