French / Belgian | 19TH C. WASMUEL BARBOTINE PLATE | Art Nouveau Mouzin-Lecat Faience | Bird of orders Paradise & Cherries

FREE DELIVERY - Offered for your collecting enjoyment is this beautiful antique majolica plate in the Art Nouveau style, made by the Mouzin-Lecat faience factory of Wasmuel, Belgium circa 1880-1900. The plate features a bird of paradise in a cherry tree feasting on the ripe red cherries. It has a scalloped and ornately molded rim and a patterned turquoise-green background. Just lovely.
Featuring a high gloss and deep rich colors. It shows a glaze crack at the back and a few stilt marks on the front and back from being fired in the kiln which is common with antique majolica.
It measures just a orders tad over 8.65 inches in diameter, perfect for display in your cabinet or on the wall.

DIAMETER: Ø 20,5 cm (8.7 inches)

CONDITION: one glaze crack at the back (pictured); no chips or other cracks; no damage or repair.

A BIT OF HISTORY

Two factories which truly dominated the ceramic Belgian market were in the same small village of Wasmuël (now attached to the town of Quaregnon) Belgium, on the French north border in 1878.
The first one, initially named "Auguste Mouzin et Cie" (AMC - Adolphe Lecat being one of the compagnons), then "La faiencerie de Wasmuël", functioned from 1878 to 1951. It produced mainly fine quality ceramic pieces. To diversify it's income, it started around 1910 a massive production of mantel-clocks: more than a hundred models with several decorations each, which were the bottom-end of their production.
On the other hand the second one, "La Majolique Wasmuël " (1904-1960), mainly produced common ceramic objects: the mantelpiece clocks were their top-end production. They made a hundred models with many decorations, often into two or three sizes.


ART NOUVEAU

Art Nouveau was born during 1890-1905. Its character has been represented through architecture, design, painting, and digital arts. The art's highlights are seen in the utilization of the nature's beauty to create designs and patterns such as flowers, flames, plants, ocean waves, and animals as well as the balanced blend of elegance and decay.

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