May 2023

Saturday 13
- 19:15 - 19:45
- 21:15 - 21:45

Musée de la Céramique

1 Rue Faucon, 76000 Rouen, France

Seine-Maritime

Normandie

Guided tour: Norman earthenware

Name: Guided tour: Norman earthenware
Start: 2023-05-13T19:15:00+02:00
End: 2023-05-13T21:45:00+02:00
Location: Musée de la Céramique

Chevrette, cobs, plate with lambrequins... Norman earthenware is rich and varied. Come and discover it at the Ceramic Museum

Saturday 13 May 2023, 19:15, 21:15

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Duration 30 min, 30 pers. max, countermarks to be removed at reception.

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Chevrette, cobs, plate with lambrequins... Norman earthenware is rich and varied. Come and discover it at the Ceramic Museum

May 2023

Saturday 13
- 19:15 - 19:45
- 21:15 - 21:45

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Musée de la Céramique

1 Rue Faucon, 76000 Rouen, France

Seine-Maritime

Normandie

With a collection of five thousand pieces, the museum presents first and foremost the most beautiful jewels of the faience of Rouen, from the 16th to the 18th century: tiles by Masséot Abaquesne, large dishes in blue camaïeu, rooms adorned with pagodas or the famous «decoration with horn». The 18th century, a true golden age of Rouen earthenware, is rightly honoured with exceptional pieces such as the Celestial and Earthly Spheres by Pierre Chapelle (1725) or the series of busts of the Seasons (1730). Examples of other faience centres (Delft, Nevers, Lille...) allow to situate the Rouen earthenware in the faience production. A hundred pieces in two new rooms dedicated to the shipments of the Manufacture de Sèvres to Rouen in the 19th and 20th centuries: three beautiful sets illustrate the last quarter of the 19th century, the creation around 1900 and the interwar period. New forms borrowed from nature, flaming decorations and crystallizations testify enough to the creativity and eccent

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May 2023

Führung: Die normannische Fayence

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Guided tour: Norman earthenware

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Visita guidata: la maiolica normanna

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Visite guidée : la faïence normande

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Visita guiada: la loza normanda

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May 2023