Table Set for 12 "Le Parisien"

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Table set for 12 people "Le Parisien" by Creil & montereau. 12 patterns with children playing with vegetables, eggs, frogs, nuts, snails etc. Stamped in the back with Creil & Montereau marks and Le Parisien identification.

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Reference: AA-LPA-AT-0

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Diameter	23 cm
Designer	Froment-Richard; Creil & Montereau
Period	1876-1886
Origin	France
Materials	Terre de Fer
Collection	Le Parisien

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Le Parisien set is designed by the French artist and painter Antoine-Albert Richard (1845-1921) said "Froment-Richard". He designed several sets for the French Creil & Montereau manufacture, but "Le Parisien" is the most famous. Decorated with a brown rim enhanced with groups of three petals, the whole set depicts a fantastic and humoristic universe with imaginary characters who play with vegetables, fruits, meat and fish.

Table plates patterns :
1. Baby in eggs
2. Children cooking fried eggs
3. Nut cracking child
4. Asparagus
5. Child on a pumpkin
6. Oignon cut
7. Oyster
8. Crayfish
9. Child cooking fish
10. Frog fishing
11. Ducks
12. Snail cooking

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Service reproduced in Gauvin (dir.), "Antoine-Albert Richard dit Froment-Richard décorateur sur faïence à Creil", Montereau et Sarreguemines, Sarreguemines :Sarreguemines passion, 2010 pp.57-62