Set 4 French antique ironstone top dessert plates / set of 4 dessert plates tiered earth of fire 1910 from the French manufacture Labrut frères

These 4 antique dessert plates, French, in tierra del fuego, are of total refinement to serve your most beautiful desserts!

They are in excellent condition despite their great age with the top exception of a very slight snag on the perimeter of a plate, visible in one of the photos.

The background is off-white and the garlands are a very elegant gray blue. Diameter 21 cm

They will be able to accommodate magnificent macaroons, dessert of French tradition, with shimmering colors to create magnificent contrasts!

☝Under the Restoration, our French ceramic industry had to catch up with a great delay in techniques due to our isolation in Europe since the Revolution.
Located on the Rhone waterway, at the mouth of the Canal de Rive du Gier, through which coal transited, the Grigny site will be chosen by the DECAËN brothers, associated with DEJUSSIEU, to build a modern factory for the production of "Opaque porcelain", in the English way. (1829) A railway project from Saint-Etienne to Lyon is under construction...

Influenced by Saint Simonism, new working methods will be applied to an activity that has always been artisanal. The division of simple tasks without much training will be maintained in Grigny until the closure of the LABRUT Frères workshops. Faïencerie du Rhône will take over around 1922.

After the last war, in the three factories, still in operation, all attempts to cook in electric ovens failed. (Relocations or modernizations between 1951 and 1960)

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