Gravy boat asparagus Salins Babortine

Gravy boat reproduced in Maryse Botero, Artichauts et Asperges en barbotine, Paris, Massin, Paris, p.79.

The earthenware factory of Salins-les-Bains was located in the East of France, in Jura, in a former convent. It was created by two faience specialists, Grager and Monniotte, in 1857 but they quickly resold their company in 1862 which is named faïencerie des Capucins. The firm first produced fine china before using enamels thanks to Rigal, the director of the Clairefontaine manufacture. Salins won a gold medal at the Paris Great Exhibition in 1889. The factory was taken over by Edouard Charbonnier, the brother of the faïencerie de Longchamps’ owners and he provided a considerable expansion to the firm that won a gold medal at the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts held in Paris in 1925. The firm became the faïencerie de Salins in 1950 and overcame the difficulties of the two wars. However, the activity decreases and the firm is sold to Sarreguemines that definitively closed it in the 1990s.