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Continuing our animal
theme...this Henriot Quimper piece...complete with camel...is the work of
Gaston Emile Brouquet (1880-1947).
I haven't found a Quimper
pottery anteater...
but there are donkeys, including this Henriot double salt.
The menagerie at the Chateau de la Bourbansais includes giraffes...
...but while several French faïenceries made plates with giraffe
motifs...particularly after the 1826 gift of a young female giraffe to
France's King Charles X from Egypt's Muhammand Ali...I can't find an image
of a Quimper version in our archives. So instead, here's one from a plate
made in eastern France:
(The story of the giraffe's travels through France...she was walked from
Marseilles in southern France to be presented to Charles X outside of
Paris in Saint Cloud...a journey that began on October 31, 1826 and ended
with her arrival at Saint Cloud on July 9, 1827...is recorded in a 1992
book by Nancy Milton entitled The Giraffe That Walked to Paris).
We pictured some of the owls from Bourbansais in previous issues, but
didn't show you this faîence version from Henriot Quimper:
Birds are a popular theme for decorating Quimper pottery...here's an HB
Odetta bowl that features a couple of doves:
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